2 Maccabees 8:9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Then Ptolemy^[a] promptly appointed Nicanor son of Patroclus, one of the king’s chief^[b] Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand Gentiles of all nations, to wipe out the whole race of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service.