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"In those days certain renegades came out from Israel and misled many, saying, “Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles around us." ... They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil."
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1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees, also known as the First Book of Maccabees, First Maccabees, and abbreviated as 1 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book that details the history of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire as well as the founding and earliest history of the independent Hasmonean kingdom. It describes the promulgation of decrees by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes forbidding traditional Jewish practices,
"In those days certain renegades came out from Israel and misled many, saying, “Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles around us." ... They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil."
"Do not fear the words of sinners, for their splendor will turn into dung and worms. Today they will be exalted, but tomorrow they will not be found, because they will have returned to the dust, and their plans will have perished."