2 Maccabees 5:11

11 Now 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.

2 Maccabees 5:11 In-Context

9 And he that had driven many out of their country, perished in a strange land, going to Lacedemon, as if for kindred sake he should have refuge there:
10 But he that had cast out many unburied, was himself cast forth both unlamented and unburied, neither having foreign burial, nor being partaker of the sepulchre of his fathers.
11 Now 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.
12 And commanded the soldiers to kill, and not to spare any that came in their way, and to go up into the houses slay.
13 Thus there was a slaughter of young and old, a destruction of women children, and killing of virgins and infants.
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