The Last Days of Antiochus Epiphanes

6 King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold.^(A)

⁵ Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;^(A)

⁵⁶ had returned from Persia and Media with the forces that had gone with the king and that he was trying to seize control of the government.^(A)

²² The consul^[a] wrote the same thing to King Demetrius and to Attalus and Ariarathes and Arsaces^(A)