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The Hellenizing [[Kohen Gadol|High Priest]] [[Menelaus]] was removed from office and executed. His successor was a moderate Hellenizer [[Alcimus]]. However, when Alcimus executed sixty pietists who were opposed to him, he found himself in an open conflict with the Maccabees. Alcimus fled from Jerusalem and went to the Seleucid king, asking for help.
Meanwhile, [[Demetrius I Soter]], son of [[Seleucus IV Philopator]] and nephew of the late Antiochus IV Epiphanes, fled from [[Rome]] in defiance of the [[Roman Senate]], arrived in Syria, captured and killed Lysias and Antiochus Eupator, and usurped the throne. It was thus Demetrius to whom the delegation led by Alcimus, complained of the persecution of the Hellenist party in Judea. Demetrius granted Alcimus's request to be appointed High Priest under the protection of the king's army and sent to Judea an army led by Nicanor. In a battle near Adasa, on the 13th [[Adar]] 161 BCE, the Syrian army was destroyed and Nicanor was killed. The annual "Day of Nicanor" was instituted to commemorate this victory.-->
===Agreement withPersetujuan RomeRoma===
Yehuda kemudian mengirim sebuah delegasi ke Roma yang dipimpin oleh Eupolemus anak Yohanan dan Yason anak Eleazar, dengan permohonan untuk membentuk sebuah aliansi. Hasil misi tersebut di luar apa yang diharapkan oleh Yudas, karena orang-orang Romawi hanya bersedia membentuk aliansi itu sejauh menyangkut kepentingan mereka sendiri, sementara pada saat yang sama menuntut kesetiaan mutlak dari orang-orang Yahudi. Surat yang dikirim oleh Senat kepada Demetrius, yang isinya melarangnya untuk bertindak dengan kekerasan terhadap orang-orang Yahudi, gagal mencegahnya. Setelah menerima berita kekalahan Nikanor, Demetrius mengirim sebuah pasukan baru yang dipimpin oleh Bacchides. Kali ini Suriah mengirim pasukan yang terdiri atas 20.000 orang, suatu jumlah yang jauh melampaui kebanyakan pasukan Yudas yang tersisa di medan tempur dan menasihati para pemimpin mereka untuk melakukan hal yang sama serta menunggu kesempatan yang lebih menguntungkan. Namun demikian, Yudas memutuskan untuk mencoba sekali lagi peruntungannya. Dalam [[Pertempuran Elasa]], Yudas dan orang-orang yang tetap setia kepadanya terbunuh. Jenazahnya dibawa oleh saudara-saudaranya dari medan pertempuran dan dikuburkan di makam keluarga di Modiin.
Judah then sent a delegation to Rome headed by Eupolemus son of Johanan and Jason son of Eleazar, with the request for an alliance. The outcome of the mission was less than Judah had hoped for, the Romans committing themselves only to such obligations as were in their own interests, while demanding absolute allegiance from the Jews. The letter dispatched by the Senate to Demetrius, forbidding him to act in a hostile manner against the Jews, failed to exercise any influence on him. On receipt of the news of Nicanor's defeat, he dispatched a new army commanded by Bacchides. This time the Syrian forces of 20,000 men were numerically so superior that most of Judah's men left the field of battle and advised their leader to do likewise and to await a more favorable opportunity. However, Judah decided to try his fortune once more. In the [[Battle of Elasa]], Judah and those who remained faithful to him were killed. His body was taken by his brothers from the battlefield and buried in the family sepulcher in Modiin.
Kematian pejuang-pejuang Makabe membangkitkan orang-orang Yahudi untuk melakukan perlawanan baru. Setelah beberapa tahun berperang di bawah pimpinan dua anak lelaki Matatias lainnya, orang-orang Yahudi akhirnya memperoleh kemerdekaan dan kebebasan untuk beribadah.
The death of the Maccabee stirred the Jews to renewed resistance. After several additional years of war under the leadership of two of Mattathias' other sons, the Jews finally achieved independence and the liberty to worship freely.
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===Medieval period===
AsSebagai warriorpahlawan heroperang anddan nationalpembebas liberatornasional, JudahYudas MaccabeeMakabe hastelah inspiredmengilhami manybanyak writers,penulis anddan severalberbagai artistsseniman andserta composerskomponis. InDalam [[theComedia Divine ComedyDivina]], [[Dante]] seesmelihat theroh spiritYudas ofMakabe Judas Maccabeus in thedi [[Heaven ofSurga Mars]] withbersama the otherdengan "heroespahlawan-pahlawan ofiman thesejati" true faith"lainnya. InDalam karya [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Love's Labour's Lost]], JudasYudas MaccabeusMakabe isditampilkan enacted along with the otherbersama [[Nine Worthies]] (Sembilan Tokoh Terpuji) lainnya, buttetapi heckleddiejek forkarena sharingnamanya asama namedengan withnama [[JudasYudas IscariotIskariot]]. MostKarya-karya significantpenting worksdipersembahkan dedicatedhanya solelykepadanya tosejak himabad dateke-17. from the 17th century onwards.Karya [[William Houghton]]'s, ''Judas Maccabaeus'', performedyang indipertunjukkan aboutpada sekitar 1601 buttetapi nowkini losttelah lenyap, is thought todiduga have been the firstmerupakan drama onpertama thedengan themetema ini; howevernamun demikian, thekarya sastra paling earliestawal survivingyang literarymasih workbertahan isadalah ''El Macabeo'' ([[NaplesNapoli]], 1638), asebuah epos [[CastilianKastilia]] epic bykarya theorang [[Portugal|PortuguesePortugis]] [[Marrano]] Miguel de Silveyra. TwoDua otherkarya 17thlainnya centurydari worksabad wereke-17 adalah ''La chevalerie de Judas Macabé'' byoleh thedramatis dan pengarang tragedy [[France|FrenchPerancis]] dramatist and tragedian Pierre du Ryer (c.sekitar 1600–1658) anddan thekarya anonymousanonim dalam bahasa neo-Latin work ''Judas Machabaeus'' ([[RomeRoma]], 1695).
===19th centuryAbad ke-19 ===
InterestMinat interhadap JudahYudas onlybaru revivedmuncul inkembali thepada 19thabad centuryke-19, withdengan ''Giuda Macabeo, ossia la morte di NicanoreNikanore...'' (1839), an [[Italy|Italian]]sebuah "azione sacra" based[[Italia]]. onBerdasarkan whichkarya ini, [[Vallicella]] composedmenyusun ansebuah [[oratoriooratorium]]. OneSalah ofsatu thekarya best-knownsastra yang literarypaling worksterkenal ondengan thetema themeini wasadalah ''Judas Maccabaeus'' (1872), asebuah five-acttragedy verselima tragedybabak byoleh [[Henry Longfellow]]. ASebuah Hebrewversi versionbahasa ofIbrani Longfellow'sdari playdrama was publishedLongfellow inditerbitkan pada 1900. TwoDua laterinterpretasi 19th-centurydari interpretationsakhir abad ke-19 ofterhadap thekisah storyini wereadalah ''Judas Makkabaeus'', asebuah novella bykarya thepengarang German writerJerman Josef Eduard Konrad Bischoff whichyang appearedmuncul indalam ''Der Gefangene von Kuestrin'' (1885); anddan ''The Hammer'' (1890), asebuah bookbuku bykarya Alfred J. Church anddan Richmond Seeley.-->
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