1 Maccabees 1:53-55

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵³ According to all these words he wrote to his whole kingdom, and he appointed rulers over the people that should force them to do these things.

⁵⁴ And they commanded the cities of Juda to sacrifice.

⁵⁵ Then many of the people were gathered to them that had forsaken the law of the Lord: and they committed evils in the land: