1 Maccabees 1:13
“Then 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.”
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1 Maccabees 1:13 Context
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, 15And made themselues, vncircumcised, and forsooke the holy couenant, and ioyned themselues to the heathen, and were sold to doe mischiefe.
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