2 Maccabees 5:24
“This passage and the preceding book make mention of him, where the slaughter of the Jews in the rest of the sabbath and Apollonius’ wickedness together with his destruction throughout Judea are recounted. Now that Antiochus commanded Apollonius to kill all of full age and to sell the women and the young people signifi…”
24He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that were in their best age, and to sell the women and the younger sort:
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22And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;
23And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.
— 2 Maccabees 5:24 —
25Who coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did forbear till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.
26And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of the sabbath, and running through the city with weapons slew great multitudes.