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2 Maccabees 14:11-13
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 14:11-13
New Catholic Bible
11 When he had said this, the rest of the King’s Friends, all of whom were hostile to Judas, added further fuel to the fire, inflaming the anger of Demetrius even more.
12 The king immediately chose Nicanor,[a] who had been in command of the elephants, and appointed him as governor of Judea. Then, he sent him forth 13 with orders to put Judas to death, to disperse his followers, and to install Alcimus as high priest of the great temple.
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- 2 Maccabees 14:12 Nicanor: the Syrian general who had directed the first great expedition against Judea at the time of Antiochus IV. During the reign of Antiochus V, he had dissociated himself from the politics of the prime minister Lysias and had gone to Rome where he joined Demetrius I and accompanied him in his escape from there and eventual acquisition of the throne.
