The Cambridge Bible for schools and colleges . chus Eupator to be put to death. In response to an appeal from the Greek party the new sovereignsent an army under Bacchides to force the recognition of Alcimus ashigh priest, and to seize the person of Judas. Content to have as holderof the sacred office one who was of the seed of Aaron, the Hasidaeansnow acquiesced in the Syrian supremacy, but the perfidious Alcimushad sixty of them slain in one day {v. 16). On the departure of Bacchidesfor Antioch, Judas soon made things impossible for Alcimus, who hadonce more to implore help from Syria. 1. th
The Cambridge Bible for schools and colleges . chus Eupator to be put to death. In response to an appeal from the Greek party the new sovereignsent an army under Bacchides to force the recognition of Alcimus ashigh priest, and to seize the person of Judas. Content to have as holderof the sacred office one who was of the seed of Aaron, the Hasidaeansnow acquiesced in the Syrian supremacy, but the perfidious Alcimushad sixty of them slain in one day {v. 16). On the departure of Bacchidesfor Antioch, Judas soon made things impossible for Alcimus, who hadonce more to implore help from Syria. 1. the hundred and one and fiftieth year\ = 162—161. Demetritis the son of Seleucus\ Afterwards Demetrius I (Soter),son of Seleucus IV (Philopator), whom he should naturally havesucceeded. But at the time of his fathers death he was a hostage inRome, and his uncle Antiochus (Epiphanes) usurped the throne. Beforethe demise of the latter the succession had been vested in his sonAntiochus (Eupator), who had actually been declared king. By this. Tetradrachm of Demetrius I. Obv. Head of Demetrius, with diadem. Rev. BASlAEflS AHMHTPIOY2f2THP02 (of King Demetrius Soter): date AHP=i6i of Seleucid era. Figure ofTyche (Fortune), seated on throne, with sceptre and cornucopiae. (From Smiths Diet, of the Bible. Cf. British Museum Cat. of Coins, SeleucidKings of Syria, PI. XIV.) time Demetrius had been fourteen years in Rome, and he now re-quested the Senate to recognise his claim to the Syrian kingdom, butin vain. It suited the Romans better that it should be in the hands ofa boy than under the control of one who had reached his vv. 2—6.] I. MACCABEES, VII. 147 few men unto a city by the sea, and reigned there. And it acame to pass, when he would go into the house of the king-dom of his fathers, that the army laid hands on Antiochusand Lysias, to bring them unto him. And the thing was 3known to him, and he said, Shew me not their faces. And 4the army slew them. And De
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