1 Maccabees 3:38

Preparations for battle

38 Lysias selected Ptolemy, Dorymenes' son, as well as Nicanor and Gorgias, two able men who were among the king's chief political advisors.

1 Maccabees 3:38 In-Context

36 Lysias was to settle strangers in all their territory and divide up their lands by lot.

37 Then the king took the other half of his forces and left his capital Antioch in the year 147. He crossed the Euphrates River and went through the upper provinces.

38 Lysias selected Ptolemy, Dorymenes' son, as well as Nicanor and Gorgias, two able men who were among the king's chief political advisors.

39 He sent them with forty thousand infantry and seven thousand cavalry to go into Judah and destroy it, as the king had commanded.

40 So they headed out with their whole force. When they arrived, they set up camp in the plain near Emmaus.