1 Maccabees 6:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

6 Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold.

² And that there was in it a temple, exceeding rich: and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields which king Alexander, son of Philip the Macedonian that reigned first in Greece, had left there.

³ Lo, he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it: But he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.