17
And when Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king's son to reign. Lysias had brought him up as a boy, and he named him Eupator.
18
Now the men in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
19
So Judas decided to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.
20
They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred and fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.
21
But some of the garrison escaped from the siege and some of the ungodly Israelites joined them.
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