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;
6. and they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his brethren have destroyed all your friends, and have scattered us from our own land.
7. Now therefore send a man whom you trust, and let him go and see all the havock which he has made of us, and of the king’s country, and how he has punished them and all that helped them.