1 Esdras 1:53

53 who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child among them; for He delivered all into their hands.

1 Esdras 1:53 In-Context

51 But they held His messengers in derision; and, look, when the Lord spoke unto them, they made sport of His prophets,

52 so much so that He, being wroth with His people for their great ungodliness, commanded the kings of the Chaldeans to come up against them,

53 who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child among them; for He delivered all into their hands.

54 And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of God, and the king's treasures, and carried them away into Babylon.

55 As for the house of the Lord, they burned it, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers;