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2 Maccabees 13:1
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1In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea,
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— 2 Maccabees 13:1 —
2And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
3Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the country, but because he thought to have been made governor.