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that they had torn down the abomination that he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his town.
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When the king heard this news, he was astounded and badly shaken. He took to his bed and became sick from disappointment, because things had not turned out for him as he had planned.
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He lay there for many days, because deep disappointment continually gripped him, and he realized that he was dying.
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So he called all his Friends and said to them, "Sleep has departed from my eyes and I am downhearted with worry.
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I said to myself, "To what distress I have come! And into what a great flood I now am plunged! For I was kind and beloved in my power.'
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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."
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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.
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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.