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Moreover, there came one who brought him tidings in Persia that the armies which went against the land of Judea were put to flight,
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and that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power, was driven away by the Jews, and that they were made strong by the arms and power and store of spoils which they had gotten from the armies whom they had destroyed;
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also that they had pulled down the abomination which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Beth-zur.
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Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sorely moved; whereupon he lay down upon his bed and fell sick from grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.
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And there he continued many days, for his grief was ever more and more, and he took account that he should die.
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Therefore he called for all his friends and said unto them, "The sleep has gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for much care.
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And I thought to myself, `Into what tribulation have I come, and how great a flood of misery is it wherein now I am! For I was bountiful and beloved in my power.'
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But now I remember the evils that I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of gold and silver that were therein, and sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a cause.
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I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles have come upon me; and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land."
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Then he called for Philip, one of his friends, whom he made ruler over all his realm,
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and gave him the crown and his robe and his signet, to the end that he should bring up his son Antiochus and nourish him up for the kingdom.