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About the event
The destruction of Nicanor, in short, commemorates the defeat of a wicked enemy of Israel (Nicanor) and the prodigious victory of Judas Maccabees and his brethren over the Greeks. The event dates back to 151 BC when Alcimus, a wicked Israelite who desired to be high priest, maliciously accused Judas and his men before king Demetrius. Demetrius — believing Alcimus’ report that Judas had seditiously slain the king’s friends and driven them out of the land — had sent Nicanor, one of his honorable princes to destroy Israel. Nicanor had, as the scripture saith, “deadly hate unto Israel.”
"1 Maccabees 7:1-26 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.
2 And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that…