Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Month after month these wicked people used their power against the Israelites caught in the towns. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets. 1 Maccabees 1:56And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives. 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 1:59 And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God: 1 Maccabees 1:60 And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord were found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to death, according to the edict of the king. Context 1 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: 58And they burnt incense, and sacrificed at the doors of the houses and in the streets. 59And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God:… Cross References 1 Maccabees 1:56 And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives. 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 1:59 And they cut in pieces, and burnt with fire the books of the law of God: 1 Maccabees 1:60 And every one with whom the books of the testament of the Lord were found, and whosoever observed the law of the Lord, they put to death, according to the edict of the king. |