2 Maccabees 5:11–16

Now when tidings of what had happened reached the king, he thought Judaea was in revolt. He therefore started from Egypt in a fury, stormed the city, and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy any one they met, and to slay those who sheltered in their houses. So there was a massacre of young and old, an extermination of boys, women, and children, a slaughter of virgins and infants. In the short space of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand of them in close combat, and as many again were sold into slavery. Not content with this, he dared to enter the most holy temple on earth, under the guidance of Menelaus, who proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country; he laid polluted hands on the sacred vessels, and swept off with his profane hands what other kings had dedicated to enhance the glory and honour of the Place.