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1 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 6
Defeat and Death of Antiochus IV.[a] 1 As King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces, he heard that Elymais,[b] a city in Persia, was renowned for its wealth in silver and gold, 2 and that its temple was very rich, containing gold shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, the son of Philip, the king of Macedon and the first to reign over the Greeks.
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- 1 Maccabees 6:1 The author portrays the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes as happening after the purification of the temple and as the result of God’s justice. In reality, it appears that the persecutor died in the autumn of 164 B.C., before the purification of the temple (1 Mac 4:36f). See note on v. 16.
- 1 Maccabees 6:1 Elymais: a city by this name is unknown; the name seems to refer to a mountainous chain of Persia, in ancient times more often known by the name Elam.
