8
And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.
9
And his servants made themselves kings every one in his place:
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And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their sons after them many years, and evils were multiplied in the earth.
11
And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
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In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.