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
12 Ptolemy Macron.Ptolemy knew how much we Jews had suffered, and he did all he could to treat us fairly and to live in peace with us.
13 Because of this, some friends of King Eupator brought charges against Ptolemy. They told the king:When King Philometor of Egypt made Ptolemy the ruler of Cyprus Island, Ptolemy ran away from that place and sided with King Antiochus Epiphanes. Now everyone says Ptolemy is a traitor.Ptolemy felt that no one respected him as governor any more, so he committed suicide by swallowing some poison.