1 Maccabees 1:55-57

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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:

⁵⁶ And they drove away the people of Israel into lurking holes, and into the secret places of fugitives.

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: