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2 Maccabees 5:13-15
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2 Maccabees 5:13-15
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13 Then there was massacre of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of young girls and infants.(A) 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.(B)
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