, and sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a
cause.

1 Mac 6:13
I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are
come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a
strange land.

1 Mac 6:14
Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made
ruler over all his realm,

1 Mac 6:15
And gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the
end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for
the kingdom.

1 Mac 6:16
So king Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth
year.

1 Mac 6:17
Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up
Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign
in his stead, and his name he called Eupator.

1 Mac 6:18
About this time they that were in the tower shut up the
Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their
hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.

1 Mac 6:19
Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the
people together to besiege them.

1 Mac 6:20
So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and
fiftieth year, and he made mounts for shot against them, and
other engines.

1 Mac 6:21
Howbeit certain of them that were besieged got forth, unto
whom some ungodly men of Israel joined themselves:

1 Mac 6:22
And they went unto the king, and said, How long will it be
ere thou execute judgment, and avenge our brethren?

1 Mac 6:23
We have been willing to serve thy father, and to do as he
would have us, and to obey his commandments;

1 Mac 6:24
For which cause they of our nation besiege the tower, and are
alienated from us: moreover as many of us as they could light on
they slew, and spoiled our inheritance.

1 Mac 6:25
Neither have they stretched out their hand against us only,
but also against their borders.

1 Mac 6:26
And, behold, this day are they besieging the tower at
Jerusalem, to take it: the sanctuary also and Bethsura have they
fortified.

1 Mac 6:27
Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do
the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to
rule them.

1 Mac 6:28
Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered
together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and
those that had charge of the horse.

1 Mac 6:29
There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles
of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.

1 Mac 6:30
So that the number of his army was an hundred thousand
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