Daniel 11:33-35
11:34 a A little help came when the family of Mattathias and those around them, who were called Maccabees, instigated a national revolt which Antiochus, occupied elsewhere, could not put down. In 164 BC, three years after the Temple had been desecrated, the Maccabees recaptured Jerusalem, removed the sacrilegious object (the statue of Zeus), cleansed the altar, and restored the daily sacrifices (8:11-14 b, 26 c; 1 Maccabees 1:59). This event is commemorated at Hanukkah (see John 10:22 d).
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