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2 Maccabees 5:5-7
Common English Bible
2 Maccabees 5:5-7
Common English Bible
5 When a false rumor spread that Antiochus had died, Jason took no fewer than a thousand soldiers and made an unexpected assault on the city. When the troops on the wall had been defeated, and the city had been seized at last, Menelaus fled into the elevated fortress.[a] 6 Jason mercilessly slaughtered his own citizens. He failed to realize military success against one’s own people is the greatest misfortune but thought that he was winning trophies from his enemies and not from his fellow citizens. 7 But he didn’t gain the government; instead, he received shame as a result of his plot and again fled as a fugitive into Ammonite country.
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