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2 Maccabees 5:24–26

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24Antiochus sent Apollonius, the captain of the Mysians, with an army of twenty-two thousand, and commanded him to slay all the grown men and to sell the women and boys as slaves. 25When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peaceably disposed and waited until the holy sabbath day; then, finding the Jews not at work, he ordered his men to parade under arms. 26He put to the sword all those who came out to see them, then rushed into the city with his armed men and killed great numbers of people.

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