And he was greatly perplexed in mind, and purposed to go into Persia, and to take tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

1 Maccabees 3:29
And he perceived that the money of his treasures failed, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension, and the evil that he had brought upon the land, that he might take away the laws of old times:

1 Maccabees 3:30
And he feared that he should not have as formerly enough for charges and gifts, which he had given before with a liberal hand: for he had abounded more than the kings that had been before him.

1 Maccabees 3:32
And he left Lysias, a nobleman of the blood royal to oversee the affairs of the kingdom from the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt:

1 Maccabees 3:33
And to bring up his son, Antiochus, till he came again.