1 Maccabees 1:13

¹¹In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.

¹²So this device pleased them well.

— 1 Maccabees 1:13 —

¹⁴Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen:

¹⁵And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.