1 Maccabees 3:39
38. Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends:39. And with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.40. So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.
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