2 Maccabees 10:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² Ptolemy, who was called Macron, had taken the lead in treating the Jews fairly to atone for the previous injustices that they had suffered, and he endeavored to maintain peaceful relations with them. ¹³ As a result, he was denounced before Eupator by the King’s Friends. He heard himself called a traitor at every turn because he had abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had transferred his allegiance to Antiochus Epiphanes. Unable to command the respect due his office, he took poison and thereby ended his life.

¹⁴ Judas Punishes the Idumeans.^[a] When Gorgias became governor of the region, he hired a force of mercenaries and maintained a state of war with the Jews.