9
He lay there for many days, because deep grief continually gripped him, and he concluded that he was dying.
10
So he called all his friends and said to them, "Sleep departs from my eyes and I am downhearted with worry.
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 evils I did in Jerusalem. I seized all her vessels of silver and gold; and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.
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I know that it is because of this that these evils have come upon me; and behold, I am perishing of deep grief 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, that he might guide Antiochus his son and bring him up to be king.
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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.
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So Judas decided to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.