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on Mount Gerizim, Andronicus; and, besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his countrymen worse than all the others. In his rooted hostility to the Jews, (2 Maccabees 5, 23)
the king also sent the Mysarch Apollonius at the head of an army twenty-two thousand strong, with orders to put to death all men in their prime and to sell the women and children. (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
Arriving in Jerusalem and posing as a man of peace, this man waited until the holy day of the Sabbath and then, taking advantage of the Jews as they rested from work, ordered his men to parade fully armed; (2 Maccabees 5, 25)
all those who came out to watch he put to the sword; then, rushing into the city with his armed troops, he cut down an immense number of people. (2 Maccabees 5, 26)
Shortly afterwards, the king sent Gerontes the Athenian to force the Jews to violate their ancestral customs and live no longer by the laws of God; (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
The advent of these evils was painfully hard for all the people to bear. (2 Maccabees 6, 3)
No one might either keep the Sabbath or observe the traditional feasts, or so much as admit to being a Jew. (2 Maccabees 6, 6)
People were driven by harsh compulsion to take part in the monthly ritual meal commemorating the king's birthday; and when a feast of Dionysus occurred, they were forced to wear ivy wreaths and walk in the Dionysiac procession. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
A decree was issued at the instance of the people of Ptolemais for the neighbouring Greek cities, enforcing the same conduct on the Jews there, obliging them to share in the sacrificial meals, (2 Maccabees 6, 8)
and ordering the execution of those who would not voluntarily conform to Greek customs. So it became clear that disaster was imminent. (2 Maccabees 6, 9)
For example, two women were charged with having circumcised their children. They were paraded publicly round the town, with their babies hung at their breasts, and then hurled over the city wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)
Other people, who had assembled in some near-by caves to keep the seventh day without attracting attention, were denounced to Philip, and were then all burnt to death together, since their consciences would not allow them to defend themselves, out of respect for the holiness of the day. (2 Maccabees 6, 11)
