2 Maccabees 10:20-22

Common English Bible

²⁰ Some men in the towers bribed greedy people around Simon. These people in turn, after receiving seventy thousand drachmen,^[a] allowed some of the enemy to slip away. ²¹ When the Maccabee found out what happened, he gathered the leaders of the people and accused them of selling their brothers for silver by setting free the enemy. ²² He executed the traitors and then quickly took the two towers.