1 Maccabees 3:30-32

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁰ He feared that he might not have such funds as he had before for his expenses and for the gifts that he used to give more lavishly than preceding kings. ³¹ He was greatly perplexed in mind; then he determined to go to Persia and collect the revenues from those regions and raise a large fund.

³² He left Lysias, a distinguished man of royal lineage, in charge of the king’s affairs from the river Euphrates to the borders of Egypt.