1 Maccabees 9:25

25 Bacchides deliberately appointed some renegade Jews as rulers over the country.

1 Maccabees 9:25 In-Context

23 After the death of Judas, the lawless traitors began to reappear everywhere in Judea, and all the wicked people returned.

24 Also at that time there was a severe famine, and the whole country went over to the side of the renegades.

25 Bacchides deliberately appointed some renegade Jews as rulers over the country.

26 These men hunted down the friends of Judas and brought them all before Bacchides, and he subjected them to torture and humiliation.

27 It was a time of great trouble for Israel, worse than anything that had happened to them since the time prophets ceased to appear among them.