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Antiochus, suspecting insult in her words, thought he was being ridiculed. As the youngest brother was still alive, the king appealed to him, not with mere words, but with promises on oath, to make him rich and happy if he would abandon his ancestral customs: he would make him his Friend and entrust him with high office. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
When the youth paid no attention to him at all, the king appealed to the mother, urging her to advise her boy to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
She had scarcely finished speaking when the youth said: "What are you waiting for? I will not obey the king's command. I obey the command of the law given to our forefathers through Moses. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
At that, the king became enraged and treated him even worse than the others, since he bitterly resented the boy's contempt. (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
When Philip saw that Judas was gaining ground little by little and that his successful advances were becoming more frequent, he wrote to Ptolemy, governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, to come to the aid of the king's government. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
Nicanor planned to raise the two thousand talents of tribute owed by the king to the Romans by selling captured Jews into slavery. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
"To my esteemed Jewish citizens, Antiochus, their king and general, sends hearty greetings and best wishes for their health and happiness. (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
I am also bearing in mind that the neighboring rulers, especially those on the borders of our kingdom, are on the watch for opportunities and waiting to see what will happen. I have therefore appointed as king my son Antiochus, whom I have often before entrusted and commended to most of you, when I made hurried visits to the outlying provinces. I have written to him the letter copied below. (2 Maccabees 9, 25)
As a result, he was accused before Eupator by the King's Friends. In fact, on all sides he heard himself called a traitor for having abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and for having gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Since he could not command the respect due to his high office, he ended his life by taking poison. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
Very soon afterward, Lysias, guardian and kinsman of the king and head of the government, being greatly displeased at what had happened, (2 Maccabees 11, 1)
persuading them to settle everything on just terms, and promising to persuade the king also, and to induce him to become their friend. (2 Maccabees 11, 14)
Maccabeus, solicitous for the common good, agreed to all that Lysias proposed; and the king, on his part, granted in behalf of the Jews all the written requests of Maccabeus to Lysias. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
