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1 Maccabees 1:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" In those days transgressors of the law came out of Israel and persuaded many, saying, “Let’s go make a covenant with the Gentiles around us; for since we were separated from them many evils have befallen us.” "
1 Maccabees 1:11
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9 They all put crowns upon themselves after he was dead, and so did their sons after them many years; and they multiplied evils on the earth.
10 There came out of them a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the one hundred thirty seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
11 In those days transgressors of the law came out of Israel and persuaded many, saying, “Let’s go make a covenant with the Gentiles around us; for since we were separated from them many evils have befallen us.”
12 That proposal was good in their eyes.
13 Some of the people eagerly went to the king, and he authorized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles.
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1 Maccabees 1:1
"After Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chittim, and struck Darius king of the Persians and Medes, it came to pass, after he had struck him, that he reigned in his place, in former time, over Greece."
1 Maccabees 1:2
"He fought many battles, won many strongholds, killed the kings of the earth,"
1 Maccabees 1:3
"went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. The earth was quiet before him. He was exalted. His heart was lifted up."
1 Maccabees 1:4
"He gathered together an exceedingly strong army and ruled over countries, nations, and principalities, and they paid him tribute."
1 Maccabees 1:5
"After these things he fell sick, and perceived that he was going to die."
1 Maccabees 1:6
"He called his honorable servants, which had been brought up with him from his youth, and he divided to them his kingdom while he was still alive."
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