In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.

In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.

1 Maccabees 1:10
And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their sons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the earth.

1 Maccabees 1:11
And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

1 Maccabees 1:13
And the word seemed good in their eyes.

1 Maccabees 1:14
And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens.