2 Maccabees 5:12

12 He commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy anyone they met and to slaughter those fleeing into their houses.

2 Maccabees 5:12 In-Context

10 So the one who had cast out a crowd of corpses to lie unburied died without mourning and received no funeral or place in his ancestral burial plot.

11 When the news of these events reached the king, he thought Judea was in revolt. So he broke camp and marched from Egypt while wild with emotion, and took the city by force.

12 He commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy anyone they met and to slaughter those fleeing into their houses.

13 They killed young and old, murdered adolescents, women and children, and slaughtered virgins and infants.

14 Over a three-day period, eighty thousand people's lives were ruined. Forty thousand were killed in hand-to-hand fighting, and no fewer than those slaughtered were sold as slaves.