1 Maccabees 6:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 So King Antiochus died there in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.[a] 17 When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up the king’s son Antiochus,[b] whom he had reared as a child, to be king in his place; and he gave him the title Eupator.(A)
Siege of the Citadel. 18 Those in the citadel were hemming Israel in around the sanctuary, continually trying to harm them and to strengthen the Gentiles.(B)
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- 6:16 The one hundred and forty-ninth year: September 22, 164, to October 9, 163 B.C. A Babylonian list of the Seleucid kings indicates that Antiochus died in November or early December of 164, about the same time as the rededication of the Temple.
- 6:17 The king’s son Antiochus: Antiochus V Eupator (“of a good father”), then about nine years old. He was in Antioch, still in the charge of Lysias, who proceeded to govern and wage wars in his name. Both were put to death two years later, when Demetrius, brother of Antiochus IV, arrived to claim the kingship; cf. 7:1–3.
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