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,^(A)

³⁵ They distributed the animals among the phalanxes; with each elephant they stationed a thousand men armed with coats of mail and with brass helmets on their heads, and five hundred picked horsemen were assigned to each beast.

⁴⁶ He got under the elephant, stabbed it from beneath, and killed it, but it fell to the ground upon him and he died.

⁶ They also had defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight against them with one hundred twenty elephants and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army. He was crushed by them;^(A)

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5 About this time Antiochus made his second invasion of Egypt.^(A)