13 I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
14 Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made ruler over all his realm,
15 and gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the end he should bring up his son An-ti´ochus, and nourish him up for the kingdom.
16 So king An-ti´ochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth year.
17 Now when Lys´i-as knew that the king was dead, he set up An-ti´ochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his stead, and his name he called Eu´pator.
18 About this time they that were in the tower shut up the Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.
19 Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.