2 Maccabees 5:13-15

Common English Bible

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. ¹⁵ Not content with these measures, he dared to enter into the holiest temple of all the earth, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor to the laws and to his native land.