2 Maccabees 13:3LXX
Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 3 of 26
"Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler."
In context
1In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas understood that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a multitude against Judea,
2And with him Lysias the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
3Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler.
4But the King of kings stirred up the mind of Antiochus against the sinner, and upon Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of all the evils, he commanded (as the custom is with them) that he should be apprehended and put to death in the same place.
5Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down.