1 Maccabees 6:8–16

⁸Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sore moved: ^lwhereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, ^mbecause it had not befallen him as he looked for. ⁹And there he continued many days: ⁿfor his grief was ever more and more, and he made account that he should die. ¹⁰Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care. ¹¹And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was ^obountiful and beloved in my power. ¹²But now I remember the evils that I did at Jerusalem, and that ^pI took all the vessels of gold and silver that were therein, and ^qsent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a cause. ¹³I perceive therefore that for this cause these ^rtroubles are come upon me, and behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land. ¹⁴Then called he for ^sPhilip, one of his friends, whom he made ruler over all his realm, ¹⁵and gave him ^tthe crown, and his robe, and his ^usignet, to the end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for the kingdom. ^16vSo king Antiochus died ^wthere in the hundred forty and ninth year.