1 Maccabees 1:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ After that, his officers assumed power in the kingdom, each in his own territory. ⁹ They all put on royal crowns after his death, as did their heirs who succeeded them for many years, inflicting great evils on the world.

¹⁰ From these there sprang forth a wicked offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, the son of King Antiochus. Previously he had been a hostage in Rome. He began his reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the Greeks.^[a]