2 Maccabees 5:11
“After the writer of the history had told of the destruction of the wicked and sacrilegious men Lysimachus and Jason, and had additionally recounted the vision of signs and omens in the sky, he returned to the sequence of the narrative, that is, to the departure of Antiochus Epiphanes from Egypt. Angered because, by or…”
Source: Septuagint
11Now when this that was done came to the king’s ear, he thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
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9Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedaemonians, and thinking there to find succor by reason of his kindred:
10and he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulcher with his fathers.
— 2 Maccabees 5:11 —
12and commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.
13Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.