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And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they fortified themselves therein: and they stored up armour, and victuals, and gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem;
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And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.
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And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel.
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And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and defiled the holy place.
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And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away by reason of them, and the city was made the habitation to strangers, and she became a stranger to her own seed, and her children forsook her.
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Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing.
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Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her excellency was turned into mourning.
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And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people should be one: and every one should leave his own law.
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And all nations consented according to the word of king Antiochus.
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And many of Israel consented to his service, and they sacrificed to idols, and profaned the sabbath.
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And the king sent letters by the hands of messengers to Jerusalem, and to all the cities of Juda: that they should follow the law of the nations of the earth,