1 Maccabees 6:16

16 Thus Antiochus the king died there in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.

1 Maccabees 6:16 In-Context

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, that he might guide Antiochus his son and bring him up to be king.

16 Thus Antiochus the king died there in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.

17 And when Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king's son to reign. Lysias had brought him up as a boy, and he named him Eupator.

18 Now the men in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.