2 Maccabees 5:22-24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² He left also governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, but in manners more barbarous than he that set him there:

²³ And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest.

²⁴ And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort.