1 Maccabees 1:56
Good News Translation
Any books of the Law which were found were torn up and burned,

New Revised Standard Version
The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire.

Contemporary English Version
Antiochus' soldiers tore up and burned any copies of the Jewish Scriptures that they found.

New American Bible
They drove Israel into hiding, wherever places of refuge could be found.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives.

1 Maccabees 1:54
And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.

1 Maccabees 1:55
Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:

1 Maccabees 1:57
On 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:

1 Maccabees 1:58
And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets.

Context
1 Maccabees 1
55Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land: 56And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives. 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:…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 1:54
And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.

1 Maccabees 1:55
Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land:

1 Maccabees 1:57
On 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:

1 Maccabees 1:58
And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets.



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1 Maccabees 1:55
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