2 Maccabees 13:1-2

Good News Translation

Menelaus Is Put to Death

13 In the year 149^[a] Judas Maccabeus and his followers found out that Antiochus Eupator was marching against Judea with a large army ² and that Lysias, the young king's guardian and the head of his government, was with him. They^[b] had a force of Greek troops consisting of 110,000 infantry, 5,300 cavalry, 22 elephants, and 300 chariots with sharp blades attached to their wheels.