52 and that whoever would not act according to the word of king Antiochus should be put to death.
53 According to all these words, he wrote to all his kingdom. And he appointed leaders over the people, who would compel them to do these things.
54 And these ordered the cities of Judah to sacrifice.
55 And many from the people, who had abandoned the law of the Lord, were gathered together by them. And they committed evils upon the land.
56 And they drove the people of Israel into hiding and into the secret places of fugitives.
57 On the fifteenth day of the month of Kislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, king Antiochus set up the abominable idol of desolation on the altar of God, and they built altars throughout all the surrounding cities of Judah.
58 And they burned frankincense, and they sacrificed before the doors of houses and in the streets.