2 Maccabees 5:22-24
New Catholic Bible
22 However, he left governors behind to oppress the people: at Jerusalem he left Philip, a Phrygian by birth[a] and with a more barbarous nature than the one who appointed him, 23 and, at Mount Gerizim,[b] Andronicus; and in addition to these there was Menelaus who lorded it over his compatriots worse than the others did.
Such was Antiochus’s animosity toward the Jewish people, 24 that he sent Apollonius,[c] the commander of the Mysians, with an army of twenty-two thousand men, with orders to slaughter all the adult men and to sell the women and children into slavery. Read full chapter
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