2. They were very powerful. Judas had been told of their wars and of the brave deeds that they were doing among the Gauls—how they had defeated them and forced them to pay tribute.
3. He was told what they had done in Spain to get control of the silver and gold mines there.
4. They gained control over the entire region through their planning and patience, even though the place was a great distance from them. They also subdued the kings from the ends of the earth who fought against them, until they crushed them and inflicted heavy casualties on them. The rest paid annual fines to them.
5. They crushed in battle and conquered Philip and King Perseus of the Macedonians, as well as others who rose up against them.
6. They also defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight against them with one hundred twenty elephants, with cavalry, chariots, and a very large army. They crushed him,
7. but they took him alive. They declared that he, and those who succeeded him, should pay a heavy fine and turn over hostages as well as some of their best territories.
8. These included the countries of India, Media, and Lydia. They took them from Antiochus and gave them to King Eumenes.
9. The Greeks thought about coming to destroy them.