1 Maccabees 3:35-37

New Catholic Bible

³⁵ Lysias was to send an army against them to crush and destroy the power of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to wipe out the memory of them from the land. ³⁶ Furthermore, he was to settle foreigners throughout the territory and to distribute their land by lot.

³⁷ The king then took the remaining half of his forces and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven. He crossed the Euphrates River and advanced through the upper provinces.