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.
15
Not content with these measures, he dared to enter into the holiest temple of all the earth, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor to the laws and to his native land.