1 Maccabees 1:12-21
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12 So this device pleased them well.
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13 Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen:
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14 Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen:
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15 And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.
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16 Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.
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17 Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,
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18 And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.
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19 Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.
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20 And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude,
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21 And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,