1 Maccabees 3:27-29

Good News Translation

The King Appoints Lysias as Governor

²⁷ When Antiochus heard what had happened, he was furious. He ordered all the armies of his empire to assemble in one huge force. ²⁸ From his treasury he paid a full year's wages to his soldiers and ordered them to be prepared for any emergency. ²⁹ But then he found that the funds in his treasury were exhausted. Income from taxes had decreased because of the disorder and the troubles he had brought on the world by doing away with the laws which had been in force from the earliest times.