2 Maccabees 5:23-25
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these Menelaus, who lorded it over his compatriots worse than the others did. In his malice towards the Jewish citizens,[a] 24 Antiochus[b] sent Apollonius, the captain of the Mysians, with an army of twenty-two thousand, and commanded him to kill all the grown men and to sell the women and boys as slaves. 25 When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peaceably disposed and waited until the holy sabbath day; then, finding the Jews not at work, he ordered his troops to parade under arms.
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- 2 Maccabees 5:23 Or worse than the others did in his malice towards the Jewish citizens
- 2 Maccabees 5:24 Gk he
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