2 Maccabees 4:34-36
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34 Thereupon Menelaus approached Andronicus privately and urged him to seize Onias. So Andronicus went to Onias, treacherously reassuring him by offering his right hand in oath, and persuaded him, in spite of his suspicions, to leave the sanctuary. Then, with no regard for justice, he immediately put him to death.
35 As a result, not only the Jews, but many people of other nations as well, were indignant and angry over the unjust murder of the man. 36 When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews of the city,[a] together with the Greeks who detested the crime, went to see him about the murder of Onias.
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- 4:36 The city: Antioch. But some understand the Greek to mean “each city.”
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