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1 Maccabees 8:6-8
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 They had also defeated Antiochus the Great, the king of Asia, who had attacked them with one hundred and twenty elephants, and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army. 7 [a]They had taken him alive and imposed terms of surrender that obligated him and his successors to pay a substantial annual tribute, give hostages, 8 and surrender portions of his best provinces—the countries of India, Media, and Lydia—which they took from him and gave to King Eumenes.
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- 1 Maccabees 8:7 This is a question of the hard-fought Battle of Magnesia in 190 B.C., which opened Asia to Rome. However, the evident delight of the historian in the defeat suffered by the father of the persecutor of the Jews carries him away: Antiochus was not captured; he was forced to pay 15,000 talents. India and Media seem to be a copyist’s error for Lydia and Mysia. Eumenes II (197–158 B.C.), king of Pergamum, was an ally of Rome who received much of Seleucid Asia Minor.
