53
According to all these words he wrote to his whole kingdom, and he appointed rulers over the people that should force them to do these things.
54
And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.
55
Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:
56
And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives.
57
On the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation upon the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the cities of Juda round about: