Antiochus Epiphanes (Seleucid king)

Also known as: Antiochus / Antiochus Epiphanes / Epiphanes / the king · Family: Seleucid · Role: king · First appears: Book I, Chapter 1

In Book I, Chapter 1, Antiochus Epiphanes quarreled with Ptolemy VI over the right to Syria, then captured the city, massacred Ptolemy’s supporters, and plundered the temple. Judas (son of Matthias) gathered an army, allied with the Romans, and drove Epiphanes out of the country, while Bacchides served under him, sent to keep the fortresses with “these wicked commands.”

Antiochus later died, and his son Antiochus succeeded him as king and continued his hatred of the Jews. In Book VII, Chapter 3, the account again describes how Antiochus “laid Jerusalem waste, and spoiled the temple,” though those who succeeded him restored the donations made of brass to thejewsofantioch.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antiochus Epiphanes captured the city, massacred Ptolemy’s supporters, and plundered the temple.(Book I, Chapter 1)
  • “the king being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favored Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy. He also spoiled the temple”
• Antiochus Epiphanes died, and his son Antiochus succeeded him as king.(Book I, Chapter 1)
  • With: Antiochus
  • “Antiochus died; whose son Antiochus succeeded him in the kingdom, and in his hatred to the Jews also.”
• c. 70 · Antiochus Epiphanes devastated Jerusalem and spoiled the temple.(Book VII, Chapter 3 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • “for though Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, laid Jerusalem waste, and spoiled the temple,”

Book I, Chapter 1

• rivals with Ptolemy VI “Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, had a quarrel with the sixth Ptolemy about his right to the whole country of Syria”
• enemies with Judas (son of Matthias) “Judas, supposing that Antiochus would not lie still, gathered an army out of his own countrymen, and was the first that made a league of friendship with the Romans, and drove Epiphanes out of the country”
• servant: Bacchides “Bacchides also, who was sent to keep the fortresses, having these wicked commands”
• child: Antiochus “when the city had already received its sacred constitution again, Antiochus died; whose son Antiochus succeeded him in the kingdom, and in his hatred to the Jews also.”

Book VII, Chapter 3

• with thejewsofantioch (Antiochus Epiphanes persecuted the Jews and spoiled their temple.) “for though Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, laid Jerusalem waste, and spoiled the temple, yet did those that succeeded him in the kingdom restore all the donations that were made of brass to the Jews of Antioch”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.