1 Maccabees 15:13-15

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ So Anti′ochus encamped against Dor, and with him were a hundred and twenty thousand warriors and eight thousand cavalry. ¹⁴ He surrounded the city, and the ships joined battle from the sea; he pressed the city hard from land and sea, and permitted no one to leave or enter it.

Rome Supports the Jews

¹⁵ Then Nume′nius and his companions arrived from Rome, with letters to the kings and countries, in which the following was written: