1 Maccabees 6:8–16

⁸When the king heard this news, he was astounded and badly shaken. He took to his bed and became sick from grief, because things had not turned out for him as he had planned. ⁹He lay there for many days, because deep grief continually gripped him, and he concluded that he was dying. ¹⁰So he called all his friends and said to them, “Sleep departs from my eyes and I am downhearted with worry. ¹¹I said to myself, ‘To what distress I have come! And into what a great flood I now am plunged! For I was kind and beloved in my power.’ ¹²But now I remember the evils I did in Jerusalem. I seized all her vessels of silver and gold; and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judah without good reason. ¹³I know that it is because of this that these evils have come upon me; and behold, I am perishing of deep grief in a strange land.”

¹⁴Then he called for Philip, one of his friends, and made him ruler over all his kingdom. ¹⁵He gave him the crown and his robe and the signet, that he might guide Antiochus his son and bring him up to be king. ¹⁶Thus Antiochus the king died there in the one hundred and forty-ninth year.