1 Maccabees 6:13

13 I know this is why all these terrible things have happened to me and I am about to die in deep despair here in this foreign land."

1 Maccabees 6:13 In-Context

11 At first I asked myself why these great waves of trouble were sweeping over me, since I have been kind and well-liked during my reign.

12 But then I remembered the wrongs I did in Jerusalem when I took all the silver and gold objects from the Temple and tried without any good reason to destroy the inhabitants of Judea.

13 I know this is why all these terrible things have happened to me and I am about to die in deep despair here in this foreign land."

14 Then he called Philip, one of his most trusted advisers, and put him in charge of his whole empire.

15 He gave him his crown, robe, and official ring, and authorized him to educate his son Antiochus the Fifth and bring him up to be king.