2 Maccabees 5:11–16

¹¹Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

¹²And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses to slay.

¹³Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, destruction of women and children, and killing of virgins and infants.

¹⁴And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.

¹⁵But this was not enough, he presumed also to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the world Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his country, being his guide.

¹⁶And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given by other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place, he unworthily handled and profaned them.