| II Maccabees 1:11
| Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.
| King. Antiochus Sidetes, who began to make war upon the Jews, while Simon was yet alive; (1 Machabees 15:39.) and afterwards besieged Jerusalem, under John Hircanus. So that the Judas here mentioned (ver. 10.) is not Judas Machabeus, who was dead long before the year 188 of the kingdom of the Greeks, for he died in the year 146 of that epoch; (see above, 1 Machabees 2:70., also the note on 2 Machabees 1:2.) but either Judas, the eldest son of John Hircanus, or Judas the Essene, renowned for the gift of prophecy, who flourished about that time. (Challoner) --- Epiphanes may as well be meant. The ancestors of those who wrote resisted him.
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