1 Maccabees 3:36-38

Good News Translation

     ³⁶ He was ordered to take their land and give it to foreigners, who would settle the whole area. ³⁷ Taking the other half of his army, the king set out from Antioch, his capital city, in the year 147.^[a] He crossed the Euphrates River and marched through Mesopotamia.

³⁸ Lysias chose Nicanor, Gorgias, and Ptolemy son of Dorymenes as army commanders; all three were able men who bore the title
    Friend of the King.