2 Maccabees 13:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Menelaus Is Put to Death
13 In the one hundred and forty-ninth year[a] word came to Judas and his men that Anti′ochus Eu′pator was coming with a great army against Judea, 2 and with him Lys′ias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.
3 Menela′us also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Anti′ochus on, not for the sake of his country’s welfare, but because he thought that he would be established in office.
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- 2 Maccabees 13:1 163 b.c.
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