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1 Maccabees 6:16-18
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 6:16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 King Antiochus died in Persia, in the year one hundred and forty-nine.[a]
17 Judas Besieges the Citadel of Jerusalem. When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he designated the king’s son Antiochus,[b] whom he had brought up from childhood, to succeed him as king, and he gave him the name Eupator.
18 Meanwhile, the men garrisoned in the citadel were blockading the Israelites in the sanctuary, taking advantage of every opportunity to harm them and thereby further the cause of the Gentiles.
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- 1 Maccabees 6:16 The year one hundred and forty-nine: this date technically encompasses September 164 to October 163 B.C. According to a Seleucid list of kings, Antiochus died in November or December of 164 B.C.; the author of 2 Maccabees also implies that Antiochus died before the restoration of the temple at Jerusalem.
- 1 Maccabees 6:17 The king’s son Antiochus: Antiochus V Eupator (that is, Antiochus “of a good father”), then about nine years old and under the guardianship of Lysias, who governed and waged wars in his name. He was put to death along with Lysias two years later when Demetrius, brother of Antiochus IV, came and claimed the kingship (see 1 Mac 7:1ff).
