1 Maccabees 3:35-37

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁵ Lysias was to send a force against them to wipe out and destroy the strength of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem; he was to banish the memory of them from the place, ³⁶ settle aliens in all their territory, and distribute their land by lot. ³⁷ Then the king took the remaining half of his forces and left Antioch his capital in the one hundred and forty-seventh year.^[a] He crossed the Euphrates river and went through the upper provinces.