1 Maccabees 3:33-35

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³³ Lysias was also to take care of his son Antiochus until he returned. ³⁴ And he turned over to Lysias^[a] half of his forces and the elephants, and gave him orders about all that he wanted done. As for the residents of Judea and Jerusalem, ³⁵ Lysias was to send a force against them to wipe out and destroy the strength of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem; he was to banish the memory of them from the place,