Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall
destroy
him
Those of his own household, his familiar friends, his courtiers
and counsellors, and the generals of his army; his destruction,
or the loss of the battle, was owing either to the bad counsels
they gave him, or to their desertion of him, being corrupted by
Antiochus: and his army shall overflow:
that is, the army of Antiochus, like a mighty inundation of
water, which carries all before it, should overflow, or bear down
and destroy, the army of Ptolemy, and overrun all Egypt, as it
did, as before related; no more resistance being to be made to it
than to a rapid flood of water: and many shall fall down
slain:
of the army of the king of Egypt. The account given of this
affair in the Apocrypha:
``18 And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death. 19 Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.'' (1 Maccabees 1)Josephus says F24, that Antiochus,
``being with a great army at Pelusium, and circumventing Ptolemy Philometor by fraud, seized on Egypt; and being in the parts near to Memphis, and taking it, he hastened to Alexandria to besiege it, and got Ptolemy, reigning there, into his hands.''