17
When Lysias learned that the king had died, he made the young Antiochus king in place of his father. He had brought up Antiochus from childhood and now gave him the name Eupator.
18
Meanwhile, the enemies in the fort at Jerusalem had been blockading the people of Israel in the area around the Temple, constantly causing them trouble and giving support to the Gentiles.
19
So Judas decided to get rid of them and called all the people together to besiege the fort.
20
The people assembled and laid siege to the fort in the year 150. They built siege platforms and battering rams.
21
But some of the men under siege escaped, and together with some of the renegade Jews, they went to the king and said,
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.