11. I said to myself: ‘Into what tribulation have I come, and in what floods of sorrow am I now! Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.’
12. But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem, when I carried away all the vessels of silver and gold that were in it, and for no cause gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed.
13. I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me; and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land.”
14. Then he summoned Philip, one of his Friends, and put him in charge of his whole kingdom.
15. He gave him his diadem, his robe, and his signet ring, so that he might guide the king’s son Antiochus and bring him up to be king.
16. So King Antiochus died there in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.
17. When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up the king’s son Antiochus, whom he had reared as a child, to be king in his place; and he gave him the title Eupator.
18. Those in the citadel were hemming Israel in around the sanctuary, continually trying to harm them and to strengthen the Gentiles.
19. And so Judas planned to destroy them, and assembled the people to besiege them.
20. So in the one hundred and fiftieth year they assembled and besieged the citadel, for which purpose he constructed platforms and siege engines.
21. But some of the besieged escaped, and some renegade Israelites joined them.
22. They went to the king and said: “How long will you fail to do justice and to avenge our kindred?
23. We agreed to serve your father and to follow his orders and obey his edicts.