0 Who tried to uncircumcise themselves?

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine. Isaiah 49:26

Trivia: According to Isaiah 56, who will God give an everlasting name?

Who tried to uncircumcise themselves?


Some wicked Jews in Judea during the Seleucid occupation who were trying to make themselves look more Greek and less Jewish.

In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens ... And they made themselves prepuces. 1 Machabees 1:12

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