1 Maccabees 1:13

13 Then certain of the people were so forward herein that they went to the king, who gave them license to do according to the ordinances of the heathen.

1 Maccabees 1:13 In-Context

11 In those days there went out of Israel wicked men who persuaded many, saying, "Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen who are round about us, for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow."

12 So this device pleased them well.

13 Then certain of the people were so forward herein that they went to the king, who gave them license to do according to the ordinances of the heathen.

14 Thereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen,

15 and made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do evil.