1. In the hundred and one and fifties year Demetrius the son of Seleucus came forth from Rome, and went up with a few men to a city by the sea, and reigned there.
2. And it came to pass, when he would go into the house of the kingdom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them to him.
3. And the thing was known to him, and he said, show me not their faces.
4. And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom.
5. And there came to him all the lawless and ungodly men of Israel; and Alcimus was their leader, desiring to be high priest;