And on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the hundred and forty and fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they built idol altars.
⛓ Read 1 Maccabees 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
1 Maccabees 1:54 narrates the fulfillment of Daniel, 'they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering,' giving the concrete Second-Temple referent for the phrase. As a deuterocanonical witness to how 'abomination of desolation' was understood, it supplies the interpretive backdrop ('let the reader understand') for Mark's reuse.
Medium confidence1 Maccabees 1:54 narrates the fulfillment of Daniel: Antiochus 'erected a desolating sacrilege (bdelygma eremoseos) on the altar of burnt offering,' the deuterocanonical realization of the abomination phrase Jesus reuses for a future desecration.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Antiochus's setting up of the 'abomination of desolation' on the altar is the historical realization of Daniel's prophecy and a deuterocanonical witness to the temple-desecration imagery behind Paul's man of sin.
Medium confidence