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1 Maccabees 6:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
1 Maccabees 6:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
17 When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up the king’s son Antiochus,[a] whom he had reared as a child, to be king in his place; and he gave him the title Eupator.(A)
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- 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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