1:9. And his servants made themselves kings, every one in his place: 1:10. And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and their sons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the earth. 1:11. And there came out of them a wicked root, Antiochus the Illustrious, the son of king Antiochus, who had been a hostage at Rome: and he reigned in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. Antiochus the Illustrius... Epiphanes, the younger son of Antiochus the Great, who usurped the kingdom, to the prejudice of his nephew Demetrius, son of his elder brother Seleucus Philopater.-Ibid. Of the kingdom of the Greeks... Counting, not from the beginning of the reign of Alexander, but from the first year of Seleucus Nicator. 1:12. In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us. 1:13. And the word seemed good in their eyes. 1:14. And some of the people determined to do this, and went to the king: and he gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathens. 1:15. And they built a place of excercise in Jerusalem, according to the laws of the nations: 1:16. And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil: 1:17. And the kingdom was established before Antiochus, and he had a mind to reign over the land of Egypt, that he might reign over two kingdoms. 1:18. And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great number of ships: 1:19. And he made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt; but Ptolemee was afraid at his presence and fled, and many were wounded unto death. 1:20. And he took the strong cities in the land of Egypt: and he took the spoils of the land of Egypt. 1:21. And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt, in the hundred and forty- third year, he returned and went up against Israel. 1:22. And he went up to Jerusalem, with a great multitude. 1:23. And he proudly entered into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof, and the table of proposition, and the pouring vessels, and the vials, and the little mortars of gold, and the veil, and the crowns, and the golden ornament that was before the temple: and he broke them all in pieces. 1:24. And he took the silver and gold, and the precious vessels: and he took the hidden treasures, which he found: and when he had taken all away, he departed into his own country. 1:25. And he made a great slaughter of men, and spoke very proudly. 1:26. And there was great mourning in Israel, and in every place where they were: 1:27. And the princes, and the ancients mourned, and the virgins and the young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.