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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.
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So King Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth year.
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Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus his son whom, being young, he had brought up to reign in his stead; and his name he called Eupator.
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About this time, those who were in the tower shut up the Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt and the strengthening of the heathen.
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Therefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.