Font Size
1 Maccabees 11:52-54
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 11:52-54
New Catholic Bible
52 However, when King Demetrius felt secure on his royal throne and the land was peaceful under his rule, 53 he broke all the promises he had made and became estranged from Jonathan. Instead of rewarding Jonathan for all the services he had rendered him, he treated him very harshly.
54 Jonathan Enters the Service of Antiochus VI. After this, Trypho returned, bringing with him the young boy Antiochus,[a] who was crowned king.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Maccabees 11:54 This is Antiochus VI Epiphanes, son of Alexander Balas, reared by the Arabian sheik Imalkue (see 11:39-40). From 145–142 B.C., he was educated by Trypho, who was an intriguing personage, a representative of the court of Alexander Balas who successively took the sides of Ptolemy and then Demetrius II and ultimately decided to stir up the military revolt against Demetrius (v. 38f) in order to make his protégé king.
