1 Maccabees 3:30-32

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁰ And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough, for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.

³¹ And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

³² And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the kingdom, from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt: