2 Maccabees 5:24

24 He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those who were at their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort.

2 Maccabees 5:24 In-Context

22 And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, by his country a Phrygian, and in manners more barbarous than he that set him there;

23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest, bore a heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.

24 He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those who were at their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort.

25 So coming to Jerusalem and pretending peace, he forbore till the holy day of the Sabbath when, taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.

26 And so he slew all those who had gone to the celebrating of the Sabbath and, running through the city with weapons, slew great multitudes.