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1 Maccabees 8:5-7
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 Philip[a] and Perseus, the king of the Macedonians, and the others who had engaged in battle against them had been crushed by them and subjugated. 6 They had also defeated Antiochus the Great, the king of Asia, who had attacked them with one hundred and twenty elephants, and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army. 7 [b]They had taken him alive and imposed terms of surrender that obligated him and his successors to pay a substantial annual tribute, give hostages,
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- 1 Maccabees 8:5 Philip V and Perseus were the last two kings of Macedonia, defeated respectively at Cynoscephalae in 197 B.C. and at Pydna in 168 B.C.
- 1 Maccabees 8:7 This is a question of the hard-fought Battle of Magnesia in 190 B.C., which opened Asia to Rome. However, the evident delight of the historian in the defeat suffered by the father of the persecutor of the Jews carries him away: Antiochus was not captured; he was forced to pay 15,000 talents. India and Media seem to be a copyist’s error for Lydia and Mysia. Eumenes II (197–158 B.C.), king of Pergamum, was an ally of Rome who received much of Seleucid Asia Minor.
