1 Maccabees 7:1-3

Common English Bible

Expedition of Bacchides and Alcimus

7 In the year 151,^[a] Demetrius the son of Seleucus set out from Rome. He sailed with a small group to a town by the sea and claimed the kingship there. ² As he entered the royal palace of his ancestors, the army seized Antiochus and Lysias, intending to bring them to him. ³ But when he learned about this act, he said, “Don’t let me see their faces!”