Topic
Lysias
13 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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- 1 Maccabees 3:32Smith · ISBE
So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:
- 1 Maccabees 6:17Smith · ISBE
Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his stead, and his name he called Eupator.
- 2 Maccabees 10:11Smith · ISBE
So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria and Phenice.
- 1 Maccabees 4:1–61ISBE
Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night; To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides. Now when Judas…
- 1 Maccabees 6:15ISBE
And gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for the kingdom.
- 1 Maccabees 7:1–23ISBE
In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there. And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken…
- 1 Maccabees 7:2–4Smith
And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them unto him. Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces. So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon…
- 2 Maccabees 11:1Smith
Not long after this, Lysias the king’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done.
- 2 Maccabees 13:1–26ISBE
In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea, And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten…
- 2 Maccabees 14:2Smith
Had taken the country, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his protector.
- Acts 23:26ISBE
Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
- Acts 24:7Nave Chief captain of Roman troops in Jerusalem
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
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- Acts 24:22 Nave Chief captain of Roman troops in Jerusalem
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 7 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
lis'-i-as (Lusias):
(1) "A noble man, and one of the blood royal" whom Antiochus Epiphanes (circa 166 BC) left with the government of Southern Syria and the guardianship of his son, while he went in person into Persia to collect the revenues which were. not coming in satisfactorily (1 Macc 3:32; 2 Macc 10:11). According to Josephus (Ant., XII, vii, 2), the instructions of Lysias were' "to conquer Judea, enslave its inhabitants, utterly destroy Jerusalem and abolish the whole nation." Lysias, accordingly, armed against Judas Maccabeus a large force under Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, Nicanor and Gorgias. Of this force Judas defeated the two divisions under Nicanor and Gorgias near Emmaus (166 BC), and in the following year Lysias himself at Bethsura (1 Macc 4), after which he proceeded to the purification of the temple. In the narration of these campaigns there are considerable differences between the writers of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees which scholars have not found easy to explain. Antiochus died at Babylon on his Persian expedition (164 BC), and Lysias assumed the office of regent during the minority of his son, who was yet a child (1 Macc 6:17). He collected another army at Antioch, and after the recapture of Bethsura was besieging Jerusalem when he learned of the approach of Philip to whom Antiochus, on his deathbed, had entrusted the guardianship of the prince (1 Macc 6:15; 2 Macc 13). He defeated Philip in 163 BC and was supported at Rome, but in the following year he fell with his ward Antiochus into the hands of Demetrius I (Soter), who put both of them to death (1 Macc 7:1-23).
(2) See CLAUDIUS LYSIAS (Ac 23:26).
J. Hutchison
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.