36. and it became a place to lie in wait in against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel continually.
37. And they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled the sanctuary.
38. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them; and she became a habitation of strangers, and she became strange to them that were born in her, and her children forsook her.
39. Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honor into contempt.
40. According to her glory, so was her dishonor multiplied, and her high estate was turned into mourning.
41. And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
42. and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king;
43. and many of Israel consented to his worship, and sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
44. And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land,
45. and should forbid whole burnt offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the sanctuary; and should profane the Sabbaths and feasts,
46. and pollute the sanctuary and them that were holy;
47. that they should build altars, and temples, and shrines for idols, and should sacrifice swine’s flesh and unclean beasts:
48. and that they should leave their sons uncircumcised, that they should make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation;