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1 Maccabees 1:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Maccabees 1:9-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 They all put on crowns after his death, and so did their descendants after them for many years, and they caused many evils on the earth.(A)
Antiochus Epiphanes and Renegade Jews
10 From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.(B)
11 In those days certain renegades came out from Israel and misled many, saying, “Let us go and make a covenant with the nations around us, for since we separated from them many disasters have come upon us.”(C)
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