1 Maccabees 7:8-10

Wycliffe Bible

⁸ And the king chose of his friends Bacchides, that was lord over the great flood (or beyond the Euphrates) in the realm, and true to the king,

⁹ and [he] sent him, for to see the destroying that Judas did; and he ordained unfaithful [or unpious] Alcimus into (the) priesthood, and bade (or commanded) him (to) do vengeance on the sons of Israel.

¹⁰ And they rose, and came with (a) great host into the land of Judea; and they sent messengers, and spake to Judas and his brethren, with peaceable words in guile.