1 Maccabees 6:14
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14 Then he called for Philip, one of his Friends, and made him ruler over all his kingdom.(A)
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1 Maccabees 6:17
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17 When Lysias learned that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus the king’s[a] son to reign. Lysias[b] had brought him up from boyhood; he named him Eupator.(A)
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1 Maccabees 3:32
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32 He left Lysias, a distinguished man of royal lineage, in charge of the king’s affairs from the River Euphrates to the borders of Egypt.(A)
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2 Maccabees 9:25
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25 Moreover, I understand how the princes along the borders and the neighbors of my kingdom keep watching for opportunities and waiting to see what will happen. So I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I have often entrusted and commended to most of you when I hurried off to the upper provinces, and I have written to him the appended letter.(A)
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2 Maccabees 9:29
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29 And Philip, one of his courtiers, took his body home; then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he withdrew to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.(A)
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