¹³ with orders to kill Judas and scatter his troops and to install Alcimus as high priest of the great^[a] temple.^(A)

Nicanor Turns against Judas

²⁶ But when Alcimus noticed their goodwill for one another, he took the covenant that had been made and went to Demetrius. He told him that Nicanor was disloyal to the government, since he had appointed that conspirator against the kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.^(A)

³⁸ For before the days of separation, he had been accused of Judaism, and he had most zealously risked body and life for Judaism.^(A)

⁵³ they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.^(A)

³¹ And it was reported to the king’s officers and to the troops in Jerusalem the city of David that those who had rejected the king’s command had gone down to the hiding places in the wilderness.^(A)

⁵ Then there came to him all the renegade and godless men of Israel; they were led by Alcimus, who wanted to be high priest.^(A)

⁹ He sent him, and with him he sent the ungodly Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and he commanded him to take vengeance on the Israelites.^(A)