18
Meanwhile the garrison in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
16
Thus King Antiochus died there in the one hundred forty-ninth year.
17
When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king's son to reign. Lysias had brought him up from boyhood; he named him Eupator.
18
Meanwhile the garrison in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
19
Judas therefore resolved to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.
20
They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.
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