1 Maccabees 1:10-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

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.

¹² 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.

¹³ And the word seemed good in their eyes.

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.

¹⁵ And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations: