2 Maccabees 10:22

22 He executed the traitors and then quickly took the two towers.

2 Maccabees 10:22 In-Context

20 Some men in the towers bribed greedy people around Simon, who, in turn, after receiving seventy thousand drachmen, allowed some of the enemy to slip away.

21 When the Maccabee found out what happened, he gathered the leaders of the people and accused them of selling their brothers for silver by setting free the enemy.

22 He executed the traitors and then quickly took the two towers.

23 He was successful in all things relating to war and killed more than twenty thousand men in the two towers.

24 Timothy, who was defeated by the Jews earlier, assembled a large number of foreign troops and brought many horses from Asia. He arrived intending to fight against Judea.