13. I know it’s because of all this that these misfortunes have come on me. I’m here, dying of bitter disappointment, in a foreign land."
14. Then he called for one of his advisors named Philip and made him ruler over all of his kingdom.
15. He gave him the crown, his robe, and the seal so that he might guide his son Antiochus and prepare him to be king.
16. Then King Antiochus died there in the year 149.
17. When Lysias found out that the king had died, he arranged for the king’s son Antiochus, whom he had brought up from childhood, to rule. Lysias named him Eupator.
18. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the elevated fortress kept surrounding the Israelites in the sanctuary. They were trying every way they could to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
19. Judas decided to destroy them. He brought all the people together to besiege them.
20. They assembled together, built siege towers and other war engines, and attacked the Gentiles in the year 150.
21. However, some of the enemy forces escaped from the blockade, joined by a number of sinful Israelites.