1 Maccabees 6:1-3

Common English Bible

Last days of Antiochus Epiphanes

6 King Antiochus was traveling through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais, a city in Persia, was famous for its great quantities of silver and gold. ² Its temple was very rich and contained gold shields, breastplates, and weapons that Alexander (the son of Philip, the first Macedonian king to rule over the Greeks) left there. ³ So he went and tried to take the city by force and plunder it. But he was unsuccessful because the city’s inhabitants knew about his plan.