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From these there grew a wicked offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes son of King Antiochus; once a hostage in Rome, he became king in the 107th year of the kingdom of the Greeks. (1 Maccabees 1, 10)
After his conquest of Egypt, in the year 143, Antiochus turned about and advanced on Israel and Jerusalem in massive strength. (1 Maccabees 1, 20)
On the fifteenth day of Chislev in the year 145 the king built the appalling abomination on top of the altar of burnt offering; and altars were built in the surrounding towns of Judah (1 Maccabees 1, 54)
He died in the year 146 and was buried in his ancestral tomb at Modein, and all Israel mourned him deeply. (1 Maccabees 2, 70)
Opening his treasury, he distributed a year's pay to his troops, telling them to be prepared for any eventuality. (1 Maccabees 3, 28)
The king took the remaining half of his troops with him and set out from Antioch, the capital of his kingdom, in the year 147; he crossed the River Euphrates and made his way through the Upper Provinces. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
The next year he mobilised sixty thousand picked troops and five thousand cavalry with the intention of finishing off the Jews. (1 Maccabees 4, 28)
On the twenty-fifth of the ninth month, Chislev, in the year 148 they rose at dawn (1 Maccabees 4, 52)
The altar was dedicated, to the sound of hymns, zithers, lyres and cymbals, at the same time of year and on the same day on which the gentiles had originally profaned it. (1 Maccabees 4, 54)
King Antiochus then died, in the year 149. (1 Maccabees 6, 16)
They assembled and laid siege to the Citadel in the year 150, building batteries and siege-engines. (1 Maccabees 6, 20)
He granted peace terms to the people of Beth-Zur, who evacuated the town; it lacked store of provisions to withstand a siege, since the land was enjoying a sabbatical year. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
