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23 and at Geri′zim, Androni′cus; and besides these Menela′us, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens,[a] 24 Anti′ochus[b] sent Apollo′nius, the captain of the My′sians, with an army of twenty-two thousand, and commanded him to slay all the grown men and to sell the women and boys as slaves. 25 When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peaceably disposed and waited until the holy sabbath day; then, finding the Jews not at work, he ordered his men to parade under arms.

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  1. 2 Maccabees 5:23 Or worse than the others did in his malice toward the Jewish citizens.
  2. 2 Maccabees 5:24 Gk he

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