1 Maccabees 1:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil.

¹⁷ And the kingdom was established before Antiochus, and he had a mind to reign over the land of Egypt, that he might reign over two kingdoms.

¹⁸ And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots and elephants, and horsemen, and a great number of ships: