1. In the one hundred and forty-ninth year, Judas and his men learned that Antiochus Eupator was invading Judea with a large force,
2. and that with him was Lysias, his guardian, who was in charge of the government. They led a Greek army of one hundred and ten thousand foot soldiers, fifty-three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.