1 Maccabees 6:54-56

New Catholic Bible

⁵⁴ Only a few men remained in the sanctuary; the rest scattered to their own homes, for the famine proved too severe for them.

⁵⁵ Offer of a Peace Treaty. Lysias heard that Philip, whom King Antiochus, prior to his death, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus to be king, ⁵⁶ had returned from Persia and Media with the forces that had accompanied the king, and that he was attempting to seize control of the government.