1 having been saved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.
Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews15 brother Jason as high priest.
17 agreed that if the office were conferred on him he would pay the king three thousand six hundred sixty talents annually.
18So the king appointed him high priest and ruler of the nation.
19 changed the nation’s customs and altered its form of government in complete violation of the law,
20 of our native land but also abolished the temple service.
212 Macc 4.16The divine justice was angered by these acts and caused Antiochus himself to make war on them.
222 Macc 4.21For when he was warring against Ptolemy in Egypt, he heard that a rumor of his death had spread and that the people of Jerusalem had rejoiced greatly. He speedily marched against them,
232 Macc 6.11and after he had ravaged them he issued a decree that if any of them were found observing the ancestral law they should die.
24When, by means of his decrees, he had not been able in any way to put an end to the people’s observance of the law but saw that all his threats and punishments were being disregarded,
252 Macc 6.10even to the extent that women, because they had circumcised their sons, were thrown headlong from heights along with their infants, though they had known beforehand that they would suffer this,
262 Macc 6.18when, I say, his decrees were despised by the people, he himself tried through torture to compel everyone in the nation to renounce Judaism by eating defiling foods.
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