11
I said to myself, "To what distress I have come! And into what a great flood I now am plunged! For I was kind and beloved in my power.'
12
But now I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem. I seized all its vessels of silver and gold, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.
13
I know that it is because of this that these misfortunes have come upon me; here I am, perishing of bitter disappointment in a strange land."
14
Then he called for Philip, one of his Friends, and made him ruler over all his kingdom.
15
He gave him the crown and his robe and the signet, so that he might guide his son Antiochus and bring him up to be king.
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