51
In this way, Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom. He appointed inspectors over all the people, and commanded the Jewish communities to offer pagan sacrifices, town by town.
52
Many Jewish people, those who abandoned the Law, followed suit and did evil in the land.
53
The king's inspectors drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had available.
54
Now on the fifteenth day of Kislev, in the year 145, they set up a disgusting and destructive thing on the altar for entirely burned offerings in the sanctuary. The inspectors built other altars in the surrounding Judean towns.