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36 He was to settle foreigners in all their territory and distribute their land by lot. 37 [a]The king took the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven; he crossed the Euphrates River and went through the provinces beyond.

Preparations for Battle. 38 (A)Lysias chose Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor[b] and Gorgias, powerful men among the King’s Friends,

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Footnotes

  1. 3:37 This expedition, in the spring of 165 B.C., resulted in failure; cf. chap. 6.
  2. 3:38 Nicanor: perhaps the leader of another attack against the Jews four years later; he was finally killed by Judas; cf. 7:26–46.