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But now I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem. I seized all its vessels of silver and gold, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.
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I know that it is because of this that these misfortunes have come upon me; here I am, perishing of bitter disappointment in a strange land."
14
Then he called for Philip, one of his Friends, and made him ruler over all his kingdom.
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He gave him the crown and his robe and the signet, so that he might guide his son Antiochus and bring him up to be king.
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Thus King Antiochus died there in the one hundred forty-ninth year.
17
When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king's son to reign. Lysias had brought him up from boyhood; he named him Eupator.
18
Meanwhile the garrison in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
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Judas therefore resolved to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.
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They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.
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But some of the garrison escaped from the siege and some of the ungodly Israelites joined them.
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They went to the king and said, "How long will you fail to do justice and to avenge our kindred?