1 Maccabees 7:1-3

Good News Translation

The High Priest Alcimus and the Campaign of Nicanor^(A)

7 In the year 151,^[a] Demetrius son of Seleucus left Rome and with a few men landed at a town on the Mediterranean coast, where he proclaimed himself king. ² As he was making his way to the royal palace of his ancestors, the soldiers arrested Antiochus the Fifth and Lysias, planning to take them to Demetrius. ³ When Demetrius heard about it, he said,