2 Maccabees 9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1Now about that time in disorder from the region of Persia.

2a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and Antiochus and his men turned to make defence with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace.

3And while he was at by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evildoing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, fatal and invisible stroke; shewing unto all that the power was manifestly God's;

9So that out of the body of the impious man be minded arrogantly.

13And the vile man vowed unto the make it May ye and your children fare well; and your affairs shall be to your mind. Having my hope in heaven,

21I remembered with affection your honour and good will toward me. Returning ver. 1.out of the region of Persia, and being taken with a noisome sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all,

22Not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness.

23But considering that my father also, at what time Cp. 1 Mac. 3.37.he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor,

24To the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, they that remained in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled;

25And, beside all this, observing how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom watch opportunities, and look for the future event, See 1 Mac. 1.10.I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often committed and commended to most of you, when I was hastening unto the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written below.

26I exhort you therefore and beseech you, having in your remembrance See ver. 14-16.the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve each of you your present good will toward me and my son.

27For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with indulgence.

28 Cp. 1 Mac. 6.16. So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the sorest sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life among the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land.

29And 1 Mac. 6.14,55,63.Philip his foster-brother conveyed the body home; and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he betook himself to ch. 4.21. See 1 Mac. 1.18.Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.