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Then he left Lysias, a nobleman from the royal family, in charge of the affairs of government, from the river Euphrates to the Egyptian frontier, (1 Maccabees 3, 32)
and with the responsibility of educating the king's son, Antiochus, until his return. (1 Maccabees 3, 33)
And he turned over to Lysias half of his troops with the elephants and gave him instructions about his policies. On matters dealing with the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem, (1 Maccabees 3, 34)
Lysias was to send an army to destroy and crush the defenders of Israel and all who remained in Jerusalem and to wipe out even the memory of them. (1 Maccabees 3, 35)
The king took with him the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, the capital of the kingdom, in the year one hundred and forty-seven. He crossed the river Euphrates and went through the upper provinces. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
Lysias chose from among the Friends of the King, Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor and Gorgias - all influential men. (1 Maccabees 3, 38)
With them, he dispatched forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to the Judean province to destroy it as the king had ordered. (1 Maccabees 3, 39)
The merchants of the region heard of their arrival, so they went to the camp with large amounts of silver, gold and fetters, proposing to buy the Israelites as slaves. The Syrian army and those from the province of the Philistines also joined the troops. (1 Maccabees 3, 41)
Judas and his brothers understood that the situation was becoming worse, because the enemy had encamped in their territory. So when they learned of the king's order to destroy and crush the people, (1 Maccabees 3, 42)
Like a desert, Jerusalem was left without inhabitants. None of her children went in or out. The temple was profaned, and foreigners lived in the city which had become a dwelling place for the pagans. There was no more rejoicing for Jacob, no flute or zither was heard. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
They fasted that day, put on sackcloth, sprinkled ashes on their heads and tore their garments. (1 Maccabees 3, 47)
They opened the Book of the Law to look for an answer to their questions, just as the pagans consulted the images of their idols. (1 Maccabees 3, 48)
