1 Maccabees 1:9-11
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
9 They all put on crowns after his death, and so did their sons after them for many years; and they caused many evils on the earth.
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10 From them came forth a sinful root, Anti′ochus Epiph′anes, son of Anti′ochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.[a]
11 In those days lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled many, saying, “Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles round about us, for since we separated from them many evils have come upon us.”
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- 1 Maccabees 1:10 175 b.c.
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