9. There he remained many days, assailed by waves of grief, for he thought he was going to die.
10. So he called in all his Friends and said to them: “Sleep has departed from my eyes, and my heart sinks from anxiety.
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.