5 The dedication of the temple took place on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Chislev—the same day of the same month that the foreigners had made the temple unfit for worship.
6 We celebrated a joyful festival for eight days, and it was just like the Festival of Shelters. In fact, while our people celebrated, they kept remembering the recent Festival of Shelters, when they were forced to roam the hills and live in caves like wild animals.
7 But now they walked around carrying sticks decorated with twisted ivy and holding up branches, including some from palm trees. They sang hymns and thanked the Lord for making our holy temple clean again.
8 Afterwards, everyone decided to make this a yearly festival for our whole nation.
9 Antiochus Epiphanes was dead, and
10 Antiochus Eupator, the son of that godless man, became king. I will now give a brief summary of the horrible wars and other things that happened during his rule.
11 After Antiochus Eupator became king, he put Lysias in charge of his kingdom. Antiochus also made him the governor of Southwest Syria Province in place of