^31 (A)Some of his soldiers will make the Temple ritually unclean. They will stop the daily sacrifices and set up The Awful Horror.^[a]

^11 (A)“From the time the daily sacrifices are stopped, that is, from the time of The Awful Horror,^[a] 1,290 days will pass.

⁴⁴ The king also sent messengers with a decree to Jerusalem and all the towns of Judea, ordering the people to follow customs that were foreign to the country. ⁴⁵ He ordered them not to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or wine offerings in the Temple, and commanded them to treat Sabbaths and festivals as ordinary work days. ⁴⁶ They were even ordered to defile the Temple and the holy things in it.^{[a] 47} They were commanded to build pagan altars, temples, and shrines, and to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals there. ⁴⁸ They were forbidden to circumcise their sons and were required to make themselves ritually unclean in every way they could, ⁴⁹ so that they would forget the Law which the Lord had given through Moses and would disobey all its commands. ⁵⁰ The penalty for disobeying the king's decree was death.

The Awful Horror^(A)

^15 (B)“You will see ‘The Awful Horror’ of which the prophet Daniel spoke. It will be standing in the holy place.” (Note to the reader: understand what this means!)

The Awful Horror^(A)

^14 (B)“You will see ‘The Awful Horror’ standing in the place where he should not be.” (Note to the reader: understand what this means!) “Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills.