Reading for June 30th

Read Daniel 11.29-39
Following his forced withdrawal from Egypt, Antiochus sacked and occupied Jerusalem in 167 BCE, profaned the Temple, and proscribed the practice of Judaism.
In verse 30 Kittim: Originally Greeks or Cypriots (Gen 10.4; Ezek 27.6), later Romans.
In verse 34 a little help: the Maccabean revolt.
In verse 36 Antiochus called himself Epiphanes, manifest god."
In verses 37-39 Antiochus set aside the worship of Tammuz-Adonis in favor of Zeus Olympus, whose statue he placed in the Temple (1 Macc 1.54-59).
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