13 I know this is why all these terrible things have happened to me and I am about to die in deep despair here in this foreign land.”
14 Then he called Philip, one of his most trusted advisers, and put him in charge of his whole empire.
15 He gave him his crown, robe, and official ring, and authorized him to educate his son Antiochus the Fifth and bring him up to be king.
16 King Antiochus died there in the year 149.
17 When Lysias heard that the king had died, he made the young Antiochus king in place of his father. He had brought up Antiochus from childhood and now gave him the name Eupator.
18 Meanwhile, the enemies at the fort in Jerusalem had been blockading the people of Israel in the area round the Temple, constantly causing them trouble and giving support to the Gentiles.
19 So Judas decided to get rid of them and called all the people together to besiege the fort.