2 Maccabees 5:23DRA
Bibbia Cattolica · DRA · Versetto 23 di 27
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"And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest."
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21So when Antiochus had taken away out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he went back in all haste to Antioch, thinking through pride, that he might now make the land navigable, and the sea passable on foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
22He 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:
23And in Gazarim, Andronicus and Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand upon the citizens than the rest.
24And 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.
25Who when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to take arms.