For the ship(s) of the king went once by three years with the ship(s) of Hiram into Tharshish, and brought (back) from thence gold, and silver, and teeth of elephants, and apes, and peacocks.

And he entered into Egypt with a grievous multitude, in (or with) chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, either knights, and [a] plenteous multitude of ships,

And he betook to him the half of his host, and elephants, and commanded to him of all these things that he would (have done), and of (or about) (the) men inhabiting Judea and Jerusalem;

And the number of his host was an hundred thousand of footmen, and twenty thousand of horsemen, and two and thirty elephants taught to battle.

And to (the) elephants they showed (the) blood of grape(s), and (of) morus, or (of) mulberry trees, for to whet them into battle.

And they parted the beasts by (or among) (the) legions; and to each elephant a thousand men stood nigh in habergeons chained, or mailed, together, and brazen helmets in (or on) their heads, and five hundred horsemen chosen were ordained to (or for) each beast. [And they parted the beasts by legions; and to each elephant a thousand men stood nigh in mailed together habergeons, and brazen helmets in their heads, and five hundred chosen horsemen were ordained to each beast.]

And he went under the feet of the elephant, and under-putted himself thereto, and slew it [or and slew him]; and it fell down into (or onto) (the) earth on him, and he was dead there.

And they wielded Antiochus, the great king of Asia, that gave battle to them, and had an hundred and twenty elephants [or having an hundred and twenty elephants], and multitude of horsemen, and chariots, and full great host all-broken of (or by) them;

And Tryphon took (the) beasts, that is, (the) elephants of the host of Demetrius, and wielded Antioch.

and bethought not on the power of God [or not bethinking (on) the power of God], but in mind, or understanding, he was made without bridle, and trusted in (the) multitude of footmen, and in thousands of horsemen, and in fourscore elephants.

and with him came Lysias, procurator and sovereign of offices [or provost of needs], having with him an hundred and ten thousand of footmen, and of horsemen five thousand, and elephants two and twenty, (and) chariots with scythes [or with sickles] three hundred.

And when a token was given to his (men) of (the) victory of (or from) God, he chose the strongest young men [or the strongest young men chosen], and by night he assailed the king’s hall in (the) tents, and he slew fourteen thousand men, and the most (or the greatest) of (the) elephants, with these (men) that were put above (or with those men who were put upon him).

Which anon (or at once) sent Nicanor, sovereign of (the) elephants, (as) a duke into Judea,