Good News Translation
and some of them became so enthusiastic about it that they went to the king and received from him permission to follow Gentile customs.

New Revised Standard Version
and some of the people eagerly went to the king, who authorized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles.

Contemporary English Version
and with great enthusiasm they went to King Antiochus, who gave them permission to live like Gentiles.

New American Bible
The proposal was agreeable;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word seemed good in their eyes.

And the word seemed good in their eyes.

1 Maccabees 1:11
And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

1 Maccabees 1:12
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 that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.

1 Maccabees 1:14
And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens.

1 Maccabees 1:15
And they built a place of exercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations: