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1 Maccabees 3:37-39
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37 [a]The king took the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven; he crossed the Euphrates River and went through the provinces beyond.

Preparations for Battle. 38 (A)Lysias chose Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor[b] and Gorgias, powerful men among the King’s Friends, 39 and with them he sent forty thousand foot soldiers and seven thousand cavalry to invade and ravage the land of Judah according to the king’s orders.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:37 This expedition, in the spring of 165 B.C., resulted in failure; cf. chap. 6.
  2. 3:38 Nicanor: perhaps the leader of another attack against the Jews four years later; he was finally killed by Judas; cf. 7:26–46.
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