2 Maccabees 6:1–6

Not long after this the king sent an old man of * Athens to compel the Jews ato depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to blive after the laws of God: 2 and cto pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in dGarizim, of Jupiter the Defender of strangers, * as they did desire that dwelt in the place. 3 The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people: 4 for the temple was filled with eriot and frevelling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that, brought in things that were not glawful. 5 hThe altar also was filled with profane things, which the law iforbiddeth. 6 Neither was it lawful for a man jto keep sabbath days or ancient feasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.