1 Maccabees 3:34-36

New Catholic Bible

³⁴ He turned over to him half of his army, together with the elephants, and provided him with detailed instructions about all that he wanted done. As for the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem, ³⁵ Lysias was to send an army against them to crush and destroy the power of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to wipe out the memory of them from the land. ³⁶ Furthermore, he was to settle foreigners throughout the territory and to distribute their land by lot.