1 Maccabees 3:32-36

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³² And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the kingdom, from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt:

³³ And to bring up his son Antiochus, till he came again.

³⁴ And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he gave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning the inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem:

³⁵ And that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away the memory of them from that place:

³⁶ And that he should settle strangers to dwell in all their coasts, and divide their land by lot.