2 Maccabees 11:1-2

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Lys′ias Besieges Beth-zur

11 Very soon after this, Lys′ias, the king’s guardian and kinsman, who was in charge of the government, being vexed at what had happened, ² gathered about eighty thousand men and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks,