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1 Maccabees 3:37-39
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 3:37-39
New Catholic Bible
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.
38 Lysias chose Ptolemy, the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor[a] and Gorgias, powerful men among the Friends of the King, 39 and under their command he sent forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to invade the land of Judah and destroy it in compliance with the king’s orders.
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- 1 Maccabees 3:38 Nicanor was the leader of another expedition against the Jews four years later and was ultimately slain by Judas (see 1 Mac 7:26-46).
