2 Maccabees 8:9

9 Nicanor, Patroclus' son, one of the king's most important political advisors, was immediately chosen and sent with a military unit of no fewer than twenty thousand men of various nationalities to eliminate Judea's entire population. He also sent with him Gorgias, a general experienced in military affairs.

2 Maccabees 8:9 In-Context

7 He especially found the night advantageous for such attacks. Talk of his good courage spread everywhere.

8 Philip saw how Judas was progressing little by little and gaining ground with each success, so he wrote to Ptolemy the governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia to come to the aid of the royal government.

9 Nicanor, Patroclus' son, one of the king's most important political advisors, was immediately chosen and sent with a military unit of no fewer than twenty thousand men of various nationalities to eliminate Judea's entire population. He also sent with him Gorgias, a general experienced in military affairs.

10 Nicanor agreed to raise the payment that the king owed the Romans—two thousand talents—by selling the Jewish prisoners of war.

11 Immediately, he sent a message into the coastal cities, summoning them to purchase Jews as slaves, promising ninety persons a talent. But he didn't anticipate the judgment that was coming from the almighty.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Friends