14. Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he placed him first over all his kingdom.
15. And he gave him the diadem, and his robe, and his ring, so that he would guide Antiochus, his son, and raise him, and so that he would reign.
16. And king Antiochus died there, in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.
17. And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he appointed Antiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had raised from adolescence. And he called his name Eupator.
18. And those who were in the stronghold had enclosed the Israelites by surrounding the holy places. And they continually sought to do evil to them and to support the Gentiles.
19. And Judas intended to disperse them. And he called together all the people, in order to besiege them.
20. And they came together and besieged them in the one hundred and fiftieth year, and they made catapults and other machines.