2 Maccabees 6:7
“Nor did anyone simply confess that he was a Jew. They were, however, led under bitter coercion on the king's birthday to the sacrifices, etc. They said that the Gentiles acknowledged Liber Pater as the lord of wine, whose rites Antiochus ordered to be especially celebrated on his own birthday, because he believed that…”
7And in the day of the king’s birth every month they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the fast of Bacchus was kept, the Jews were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus, carrying ivy.
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5The altar also was filled with profane things, which the law forbiddeth.
6Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.
— 2 Maccabees 6:7 —
8Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews, that they should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices:
9And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery.