1 Maccabees 1:12

1 Maccabees 1:12 Context

¹⁰And there came out of them a wicked roote, Antiochus [surnamed] Epiphanes, sonne of Antiochus the king, who had beene an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundreth and thirty and seuenth yeere of the kingdome of the Greekes. ¹¹In those daies went there out of Israel wicked men, who perswaded many, saying, Let vs goe, and make a couenant with the heathen, that are round about vs: for since we departed from them, we haue had much sorrow. ¹²So this deuise pleased them well. ¹³Then certaine of the people were so forward heerein, that they went to the king, who gaue them licence to doe after the ordinances of the heathen. ¹⁴Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Ierusalem, according to the customes of the heathen,

Share This Verse: