1 Maccabees 1:12

12 So this device pleased them well.

1 Maccabees 1:12 In-Context

10 And there came out of them a wicked root: Antiochus, surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been a hostage at Rome; and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

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,