1 Maccabees 3:30-32

New Catholic Bible

³⁰ He thus began to fear that, as had happened on more than one occasion, he would not have sufficient funds to cover his normal expenses and the gifts that he had been accustomed to distribute more lavishly than had any of his predecessors on the throne. ³¹ Greatly concerned, he decided to go to Persia and levy tribute on those provinces and in this manner raise a large sum of money.

³² He therefore left Lysias, a distinguished nobleman of royal lineage, in charge of the king’s affairs from the Euphrates River to the Egyptian frontier,