1 Maccabees 3:31-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³¹ And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

³² And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the kingdom, from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt:

³³ And to bring up his son Antiochus, till he came again.