6. So he summoned his noblest officers, who had been brought up with him from his youth, and divided his kingdom among them while he was still alive.
7. Alexander had reigned twelve years when he died.
8. So his officers took over his kingdom, each in his own territory,
9. and after his death they all put on diadems, and so did their sons after them for many years, multiplying evils on the earth.
10. There sprang from these a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome. He became king in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.