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2 Maccabees 9:1-3
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 9:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 9
Antiochus Epiphanes Meets a Wretched End.[a] 1 About that time it so happened that Antiochus was leading an ignominious retreat from the region of Persia. 2 He had entered the city called Persepolis and attempted to plunder the temple and gain control of the city. However, the people immediately rose up in armed defense and repulsed Antiochus and his men, with the result that Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants and forced into a humiliating retreat. 3 On his arrival in Ecbatana, he learned what had happened to Nicanor and to the forces of Timothy.
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- 2 Maccabees 9:1 This event of 164 B.C. is here narrated for the third time (see 2 Mac 1:11-17; 1 Mac 6:1-17). The author repeats it in order to keep together the various accounts of the punishment of the persecutors of the Jews, including accounts of Judas’s campaigns in Idumea and the Transjordan (see 2 Mac 10:14-38; 1 Mac 5:1-51) and the first expedition of Lysias (see 2 Mac 11:1-15; 1 Mac 4:26-35). The appended letter, in all probability, was not written to the Jews but to the citizens of Antioch. The text of the letter, whose transcript was enclosed (v. 25), is not given.
