Antiochus III was the father of the infamous Antiochus IV Epiphanes of I and II Maccabees fame who desecrated the Jewish temple (prophesied by the prophet Daniel) and precipitated the Maccabean Revolt which eventually led to the observance of Hanukkah celebrating the reconsecration of the temple.
Antiochus III was the father of the infamous Antiochus IV Epiphanes of I and II Maccabees fame who desecrated the Jewish temple (prophesied by the prophet Daniel) ...Yet some still deny Maccabees their place in the canon of Scripture. (No room for have any of that prayers-for-the-dead stuff, dontcha know ...)