1 Maccabees 1:9
“And after his death they all put crownes vpon themselues so did their sonnes after them, many yeeres, and euils were multiplied in the earth.”
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1 Maccabees 1:9 Context
7So Alexander reigned twelue yeeres, and (then) died. 8And his seruants bare rule euery one in his place. 9And after his death they all put crownes [vpon themselues] so did their sonnes after them, many yeeres, and euils were multiplied in the earth. 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.
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And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.
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