1 Maccabees 3:38LXX

36And that he should settle strangers to dwell in all their coasts, and divide their land by lot.

37So the king took the half of the army that remained, and went forth from Antioch the chief city of his kingdom, in the hundred and forty-seventh year: and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the higher countries.

38Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenus, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends.

39And he sent with them forty thousand men, and seven thousand horsemen: to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it according to the king’s orders.

40So they went forth with all their power, and came, and pitched near Emmaus in the plain country.