And they will all put royal crowns on their heads after his death and their sons after them for many years and increase evil in the land.
And from them came the root of evil, Antiochus Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus the king, who was a mixed race in Rome and reigned in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
In those days, the sons of Belial came out from among Israel and drove away many, saying, "We will go and make a covenant with the nations that are around us, because from the day that we separated from them, many evils have found us.