2 Maccabees 5:13-15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ Then there was massacre of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of young girls and infants. ¹⁴ Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting, and as many were sold into slavery as were killed.

Pillage of the Temple

¹⁵ Not content with this, Antiochus^[a] dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country.