2 Maccabees 5:4-14

4 Therefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.
5 Now when there had gone forth a false rumor that Antiochus was dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. And those who were upon the walls being driven back and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle.
6 But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to win the day from those of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him, but thinking they had been his enemies whom he conquered, and not his countrymen.
7 However, for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame as the reward for his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.
8 In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws; and, being held in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
9 Thus he that had driven many out of their country, perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians and thinking there to find succor by reason of his kindred.
10 And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all nor sepulcher with his fathers.
11 Now when this that was done came to the king's ear, he thought that Judea had revolted. Thereupon, removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
12 and commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.
13 Thus there was killing of young and old, making away with men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.
14 And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict, and no fewer sold than slain.
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