And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north - "moved with choler" at so great losses, Syria having been wrested from him, and his own kingdom imperilled, though otherwise an indolent man, to which his disasters were owing, as also to the odium of his subjects against him for having murdered his father, mother, and brother, whence, in irony, they called him Philopater, 'Father-lover.'
And he shall set forth a great multitude - "he," namely, Antiochus king of Syria, whose force was 70,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry.
But the multitude shall be given into his hand - into Ptolemy's hands: 10,000 of Antiochus' army were slain, and 4,000 made captives.