2 Maccabees 5:23-25
New Catholic Bible
23 and, at Mount Gerizim,[a] Andronicus; and in addition to these there was Menelaus who lorded it over his compatriots worse than the others did.
Such was Antiochus’s animosity toward the Jewish people, 24 that he sent Apollonius,[b] the commander of the Mysians, with an army of twenty-two thousand men, with orders to slaughter all the adult men and to sell the women and children into slavery. 25 When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peacefully disposed and waited until the holy Sabbath day. Then, finding the Jews abstaining from work, he ordered his men to parade fully armed. Read full chapter
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