6:11. And I said in my heart: Into how much tribulation am I come, and into what floods of sorrow wherein now I am: I that was pleasant and beloved in my power!
6:12. But now I remember the evils that I did in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause.
6:13. I know, therefore, that for this cause these evils have found me: and behold I perish with great grief in a strange land.
6:14. Then he called Philip, one of his friends, and he made him regent over all his kingdom.
6:15. And he gave him the crown, and his robe, and his ring, that he should go to Antiochus, his son, and should bring him up for the kingdom.
6:16. So king Antiochus died there in the year one hundred and forty-nine.
6:17. And Lysias understood that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus, his son, to reign, whom he had brought up young: and he called his name Eupator.
6:18. Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.
6:19. And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them.
6:20. And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.