1 Maccabees 3:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁷ Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his mind: and he sent and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an exceeding strong army.

²⁸ And he opened his treasury, and gave out pay to the army for a year: and he commanded them, that they should be ready for all things.

²⁹ And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times: