Maccabees #8 - Antiochus IV Comes to Power
Posted in Maccabees on Dec 15th, 2008 No Comments »
King Antiochus III of the Seleucids took over the territory of Jerusalem and Judea from the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt. His son, King Antiochus IV, in an attempt to strengthen his southern border, and to prevent rebellion, tried to destroy the Jewish religion and tried to get the Jews to worship the Greek gods. It didn’t work.
