The .vj. Chapter.
1 Antiochus wylling to take the citie of Elymas for a pray, is driuen away of the citezins. 8 He falleth into sicknesse and dyeth. 17 His sonne Antiochus is made king. 34 The be∣sieging of the towre of Sion. Eupator commeth into Iewry with a great armie. 43 The boldnesse of Eleazar.
[unspec A] 1 NOw when king Anti∣ochus trauailed tho∣rough ye hie countries, he heard that Elymas in Persia was a noble and plenteous citie in siluer and golde,
2 And that there was in it a very rich temple, where as were clothes, coate ar∣mours, and shieldes of golde, which A∣lexander the sonne of Philip king of Macedonia that raigned first in Grecia had left behinde him.
3 Wherefore he went about to take the citie & to spoyle it, but he was not able: for the citezins were warned of it, and fought with him:
4 And so he fled, and departed with great heauinesse, and came againe into Baby∣lon.
5 Moreouer, there came one which brought him tidinges in Persia, * 1.1 that his hoastes which were in the lande of Iuda were driuen away,
6 And how that Lysias went foorth first with a great power, and was dry∣uen away of the Iewes, how that they had wonne the victory, and gotten great goodes out of the hoastes that perished,
[unspec B] 7 How they had broken downe the ab∣homination * 1.2which he set vp vpon the aulter at Hierusalem, & fenced the sanc∣tuary with hie walles, lyke as it was a∣fore, yea and Bethsura his citie also.
8 So it chaunced, that when the king heard these wordes, he was afrayde, & greeued very sore: Wherefore he layde him downe vpon his bed, and fell sicke for very sorowe, and all because it had not happened as he had deuised.
9 And there continued he long: for his griefe was euer more and more, so that he sawe he must needes dye.
10 Therfore he sent for all his friendes, & saide vnto them: The sleepe is gone fro myne eyes for the very sorowe and vex∣ation of heart that I haue.
11 For when I consider in my minde the great aduersitie that I am come vnto, and the fluddes of heauines which I am come in, where as afore time I was so merie, and so greatlie set by by reason of my power:
12 Againe, considering the euill that I haue done at Hierusalem, from whence I toke all the riches of golde and siluer that were in it, and sent to destroye the inhabitours of Iurie without any reason why:
13 I know that these troubles are come vpon me for the same cause: and behold, I must dye with great sorowe in a straunge lande.
14 Then called he for one Phillip, a frend of his, whom he made ruler of all his realme,
15 And gaue him the crowne, his robe, and his ring, that he shoulde take his sonne Antiochus vnto him, & bring him vp, till he might raigne him selfe.
16 * 1.3So the king Antiochus died there, in the hundred fourtie and nine yere.
17 When Lysias knew that the king was dead, he ordained Antiochus his sonne, whom he had brought vp, to raigne in his fathers steede, and called him Eu∣pator.
18 Nowe they that were in the castle [at Hierusalem] kept in the Iewes rounde about the sanctuary, and sought euer