2 Maccabees 5:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² He commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy anyone they met and to slaughter those fleeing into their houses. ¹³ They killed young and old, murdered adolescents, women and children, and slaughtered virgins and infants. ¹⁴ Over a three-day period, eighty thousand people’s lives were ruined. Forty thousand were killed in hand-to-hand fighting, and no fewer than those slaughtered were sold as slaves.