2 Maccabees 10:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ But now, carrying green palm branches and sticks decorated with ivy, they paraded around, singing grateful praises to him who had brought about the purification of his own Temple. ⁸ Everyone agreed that the entire Jewish nation should celebrate this festival each year.

Ptolemy Macron Commits Suicide

⁹ The days of Antiochus Epiphanes had come to an end.