2 Maccabees 6:1-3

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The Suppression of Judaism

6 Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian^[a] senator^[b] to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their ancestors and no longer to live by the laws of God; ² also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Olympian Zeus, and to call the one in Gerizim the temple of Zeus-the-Friend-of-Strangers, as did the people who lived in that place.

³ Harsh and utterly grievous was the onslaught of evil.