Antiochus the Great was slain.

20. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom:

his son Seleucus Philopater, who sent out Heliodorus and taxed the temples as well as the people

but within a few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

Seleucus shortly after, died in a mysterious manner.

21. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person,

Antiochus Epiphanes

to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

22. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Onias III, the high priest was put to death by his order.