2 Maccabees 13:1-3

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Menelaus Is Put to Death

13 In the one hundred forty-ninth year, word came to Judas and his men that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great army against Judea,^{(A) 2} and with him Lysias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of one hundred ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.^(B)

³ Menelaus also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country’s welfare but because he thought that he would be established in office.^(C)