2 Maccabees 13:1-3

Common English Bible

Events in Modein and Beth-zur

13 In year 149^[a] the news reached Judas’ followers that Antiochus Eupator was moving against Judea with a large army. ² With him was Lysias, Antiochus’ guardian and head of the government. Each one had a Greek force of one hundred ten thousand foot soldiers, fifty-three hundred cavalry, and twenty-two elephants, as well as three hundred chariots armed with scythes. ³ Menelaus also joined them and encouraged Antiochus with many lies, not out of a concern for the safety of his homeland but because he expected that he would be set over the government.