52
Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land;
53
they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.
54
Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah,
55
and offered incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets.
56
The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire.