2 Maccabees 4:45-47

Common English Bible

⁴⁵ But Menelaus, without an ally, promised enough money to Ptolemy, Dorymenes’ son, to gain the king’s support. ⁴⁶ So Ptolemy took the king aside into a royal porch area, as though to get some fresh air. He convinced the king to change his mind. ⁴⁷ So Menelaus, the cause of all the evil, was allowed to leave court acquitted of all charges, but the wretched envoys, who would have been found innocent even had they pleaded their case before Scythians, were falsely condemned to death.