{"id":428,"date":"2021-03-08T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:57:49","slug":"israel-under-the-maccabees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/israel-under-the-maccabees\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel under the Maccabees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the Seleucid Empire continued to lose land to rival powers and internal revolts, Antiochus IV Epiphanes sought to unify his diverse domain by forcing Greek religious and political practices upon all his subjects (1 Maccabees 1; 2 Maccabees 6-7). Eventually his harsh policies fomented open rebellion by faithful Jews under the leadership of Mattathias Maccabeus and his sons (1 Maccabees 2; 2 Maccabees 8). Beginning in Judea in 167 B.C., the Maccabean leaders established an independent kingdom and gradually accumulated more and more land until their domain roughly equalled the territory allotted to the twelve tribes of Israel (1 Maccabees 3-16; 2 Maccabees 9-15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-657x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-768x1197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-986x1536.jpg 986w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-1314x2048.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-1568x2443.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees-scaled.jpg 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/images\/hi-res\/IsraelUnderTheMaccabees_high.jpg\">download hi-res file<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"photolauncher\" style=\"display:none;\" mapbasename=\"IsraelUnderTheMaccabees\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Seleucid Empire continued to lose land to rival powers and internal revolts, Antiochus IV Epiphanes sought to unify his diverse domain by forcing Greek religious and political practices upon all his subjects (1 Maccabees 1; 2 Maccabees 6-7). Eventually his harsh policies fomented open rebellion by faithful Jews under the leadership of Mattathias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccabeanperiod","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbsXLW-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblemapper.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}