1 Maccabees 15:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ And Antiochus camped above Dora with a hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen:

¹⁴ And he invested the city, and the ships drew near by sea: and they annoyed the city by land, and by sea, and suffered none to come in, or to go out.

¹⁵ And Numenius, and they that had been with him, came from the city of Rome, having letters written to the kings, and countries, the contents whereof were these: