THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

First Maccabees

1:57On 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:



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