2 Maccabees 5:11–16

¹¹When news of what had happened reached the king, he took it to mean that Judea was in revolt. So, raging inwardly, he left Egypt and took the city by storm. ¹²And he commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly every one they met and to slay those who went into the houses. ¹³Then there was killing of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of virgins and infants. ¹⁴Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting; and as many were sold into slavery as were slain.

¹⁵Not content with this, Antiochus^v dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country. ¹⁶He took the holy vessels with his polluted hands, and swept away with profane hands the votive offerings which other kings had made to enhance the glory and honor of the place.