Antiochus Epiphanes.
Antiochus Epiphanes
they wanted the Jewish people to have a country of there own
He wanted to kill them because they were Jewish.
Antiochus Epiphanes.
Antiochus was the name of the king of the Seleucid Empire in Syria.
Immediately prior to the revolt, there was no Jewish king. The Syrian-Greek (Seleucid) king, Antiochus IV, ruled Israel.
Antiochus IV of Syria wanted them to become Hellenized- to follow Greeks rather than Jewish customes
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid king, defiled the Jewish temple in 167 BCE by slaughtering pigs on the altar, outlawing Jewish practices, and erecting an altar to Zeus inside the temple. This led to the Maccabean Revolt by the Jewish rebels against the Seleucid rule.
Antiochus made those additions to the Jewish temple
Antiochus.
Antiochus Epiphanes.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes was a Seleucid king who ruled over Judea in the 2nd century BCE. He is significant in the Old Testament for his persecution of the Jewish people and desecration of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sparking the Maccabean Revolt. This event led to the celebration of Hanukkah.
Antiochus.
Antiochus Epiphanes
Antiochus Epiphanes, a Seleucid king of 2200 years ago.
I believe that the first ancient Jewish king was King Saul.