2 Maccabees 11:2-4

Common English Bible

² He led eighty thousand troops and all his cavalry against the Jews. He intended to make the city a Greek territory, ³ to make the temple subject to tribute like the sacred sites of other nations, and to put the high priesthood on sale every year. ⁴ He gave no thought whatsoever to the power of God but was inflated by his tens of thousands of foot soldiers, his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants.