1 Maccabees 3:37-39

Good News Translation

     ³⁷ Taking the other half of his army, the king set out from Antioch, his capital city, in the year 147.^[a] He crossed the Euphrates River and marched through Mesopotamia.

³⁸ Lysias chose Nicanor, Gorgias, and Ptolemy son of Dorymenes as army commanders; all three were able men who bore the title
    Friend of the King. ³⁹ He put them in charge of 40,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry and ordered them to invade the land of Judea and destroy it as the king had commanded.