uld profane the
sabbaths and festival days:

1 Mac 1:46
And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:

1 Mac 1:47
Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and
sacrifice swine's flesh, and unclean beasts:

1 Mac 1:48
That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and
make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and
profanation:

1 Mac 1:49
To the end they might forget the law, and change all the
ordinances.

1 Mac 1:50
And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of
the king, he said, he should die.

1 Mac 1:51
In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and
appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities
of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.

1 Mac 1:52
Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every
one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the
land;

1 Mac 1:53
And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever
they could flee for succour.

1 Mac 1:54
Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred
forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation
upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of
Juda on every side;

1 Mac 1:55
And burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the
streets.

1 Mac 1:56
And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which
they found, they burnt them with fire.

1 Mac 1:57
And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament,
or if any committed to the law, the king's commandment was, that
they should put him to death.

1 Mac 1:58
Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every
month, to as many as were found in the cities.

1 Mac 1:59
Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did
sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.

1 Mac 1:60
At which time according to the commandment they put to death
certain women, that had caused their children to be circumcised.

1 Mac 1:61
And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled
their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.

1 Mac 1:62
Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in
themselves not to eat any unclean thing.

1 Mac 1:63
Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled
with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant:
so then they died.

1 Mac 1:64
And there was very great wrath upon Israel.

1 Mac 2:1
In those days arose Mattathias the s