1 Maccabees 6:1

Last days of Antiochus Epiphanes

1 King Antiochus was traveling through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais, a city in Persia, was famous for its great quantities of silver and gold.

1 Maccabees 6:1 In-Context

1 King Antiochus was traveling through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais, a city in Persia, was famous for its great quantities of silver and gold.

2 Its temple was very rich and contained gold shields, breastplates, and weapons that Alexander (the son of Philip, the first Macedonian king to rule over the Greeks) left there.

3 So he went and tried to take the city by force and plunder it. But he was unsuccessful because the city's inhabitants knew about his plan.

4 They resisted him in battle, and he fled. With great disappointment, he planned to return to Babylon.

5 While King Antiochus was in Persia, someone came to him and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been thoroughly defeated.