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They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe , cities of Lycaonia , and unto the region that lieth round about:

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia , The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, each having a Greek force, a hundred and ten thousand footmen, and five thousand and three hundred horsemen, and two and twenty elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.

And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia , we came to Myra , a city of Lycia .

And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.

But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened:

and that Lysias went first with a strong host, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off;

Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium .

For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to be chancellor, and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia .

Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria , and Phoenicia , and Cilicia , he said,

Phrygia , and Pamphylia , in Egypt , and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene , and strangers of Rome , Jews and proselytes,

Lysias came forward to speak, made the best defence that was possible, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, departed to Antioch . This was the issue of the inroad and departure of the king.

And there sat a certain man at Lystra , impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:

the country of India , and Media , and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes:

But the King of kings stirred up the passion of Antiochus against the wicked wretch; and when Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, the king commanded to bring him to Beroea, and to put him to death after the manner of that place.

So when these covenants had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their husbandry.

And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra , and to Iconium , and Antioch ,

Ethiopia , and Libya , and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

Now after a very little time Lysias, the king’s guardian and kinsman and chancellor, being sore displeased for the things that had come to pass,

And when he could not overcome Onias, he got him to Apollonius the son of Thrasaeus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia :

And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath –rimmon with her suburbs:

And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s Friends;

And Apollonius had left a thousand horse behind them privily.

But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and them that were with him;