2 Maccabees 5:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay.

¹³ Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, a destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants.

¹⁴ And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.