2 Maccabees 11:2

2 gathered about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks,

2 Maccabees 11:2 In-Context

1 Very soon after this, Lysias, the king's guardian and kinsman, who was in charge of the government, being vexed at what had happened,

2 gathered about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks,

3 and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.

4 He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry, and his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants.

5 Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five stadia from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard.