2 Maccabees 5:22-24
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 He left governors to harass the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth,[a] and in character more barbarous than the man who appointed him;(A) 23 at Mount Gerizim,[b] Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens more than the others. Out of hatred for the Jewish citizens, 24 (B)the king sent Apollonius,[c] commander of the Mysians, at the head of an army of twenty-two thousand, with orders to kill all the grown men and sell the women and children into slavery.
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- 5:22 Philip, a Phrygian by birth: the Philip of 2 Mc 6:11 and 8:8, but probably not the same as Philip the regent of 2 Mc 9:29 and 1 Mc 6:14.
- 5:23 Mount Gerizim: the sacred mountain of the Samaritans at Shechem; cf. 2 Mc 6:2.
- 5:24 Apollonius: the Mysian commander of 1 Mc 1:29; mentioned also in 2 Mc 3:5; 4:4.
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