2 Maccabees 6:4
Good News Translation
Gentiles filled the Temple with drinking parties and all sorts of immorality. They even had intercourse with prostitutes there. Forbidden objects were brought into the Temple,

New Revised Standard Version
For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles, who dallied with prostitutes and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit.

Contemporary English Version
They held wild parties and did other disgusting things in the temple, such as having sex with prostitutes and setting up vulgar idols.

New American Bible
The Gentiles filled the temple with debauchery and revelry; they amused themselves with prostitutes and had intercourse with women even in the sacred courts. They also brought forbidden things into the temple,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful.

2 Maccabees 6:2
And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place.

2 Maccabees 6:3
And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all.

2 Maccabees 6:5
The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws.

2 Maccabees 6:6
And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.

Context
2 Maccabees 6
3And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all. 4For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful. 5The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 6:2
And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Garazim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place.

2 Maccabees 6:3
And very bad was this invasion of evils, and grievous to all.

2 Maccabees 6:5
The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws.

2 Maccabees 6:6
And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.



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2 Maccabees 6:3
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