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He did not gain control of the government, however; and in the end got only disgrace from his conspiracy, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)
And he commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly every one they met and to slay those who went into the houses. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)
Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting; and as many were sold into slavery as were slain. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
And he left governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, by birth a Phrygian and in character more barbarous than the man who appointed him; (2 Maccabees 5, 22)
and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens, (2 Maccabees 5, 23)
The altar was covered with abominable offerings which were forbidden by the laws. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
and should slay those who did not choose to change over to Greek customs. One could see, therefore, the misery that had come upon them. (2 Maccabees 6, 9)
Therefore he never withdraws his mercy from us. Though he disciplines us with calamities, he does not forsake his own people. (2 Maccabees 6, 16)
But making a high resolve, worthy of his years and the dignity of his old age and the gray hairs which he had reached with distinction and his excellent life even from childhood, and moreover according to the holy God-given law, he declared himself quickly, telling them to send him to Hades. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
"Such pretense is not worthy of our time of life," he said, "lest many of the young should suppose that Eleazar in his ninetieth year has gone over to an alien religion, (2 Maccabees 6, 24)
and leave to the young a noble example of how to die a good death willingly and nobly for the revered and holy laws." When he had said this, he went at once to the rack. (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
"The Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song which bore witness against the people to their faces, when he said, `And he will have compassion on his servants.'" (2 Maccabees 7, 6)
