37. and deposited them in that place. And they became a great snare.
38. And this became a place of ambush against the sanctuary and a diabolical evil in Israel.
39. And they poured out innocent blood around the sanctuary, and they contaminated the sanctuary.
40. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them, and the city became the dwelling place of outsiders, and she became a stranger to her own offspring, and her own children abandoned her.
41. Her sanctuary was desolate, like a place of solitude, her feast days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into disgrace, her honors into nothing.
42. Her shame was multiplied according to her glory, and her loftiness was turned into lamentation.
43. And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people must be one, and that each one should relinquish his own law.
44. And all Gentiles consented, according to the word of king Antiochus.
45. And many out of Israel consented to his servitude, and they sacrificed to idols, and they polluted the Sabbath.
46. And the king sent letters, by the hand of messengers, to Jerusalem and to all the cities of Judah: that they should follow the law of the Nations of the earth,
47. and that they should prohibit holocausts and sacrifices and atonements to be made in the temple of God,