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Many sacrilegious thefts had been committed by Lysimachus in the city with the connivance of Menelaus. When word was spread that a large number of gold vessels had been stolen, the people assembled in protest against Lysimachus. (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
It then happened that all over the city, for nearly forty days, there appeared horsemen charging in midair, clad in garments interwoven with gold--companies fully armed with lances (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
and drawn swords; squadrons of cavalry in battle array, charges and countercharges on this side and that, with brandished shields and bristling spears, flights of arrows and flashes of gold ornaments, together with armor of every sort. (2 Maccabees 5, 3)
He ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they met and to slay those who took refuge in their houses. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)
There was a massacre of young and old, a killing of women and children, a slaughter of virgins and infants. (2 Maccabees 5, 13)
In the space of three days, eighty thousand were lost, forty thousand meeting a violent death, and the same number being sold into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
in this way he would escape the death penalty, and be treated kindly because of their old friendship with him. (2 Maccabees 6, 22)
But he made up his mind in a noble manner, worthy of his years, the dignity of his advanced age, the merited distinction of his gray hair, and of the admirable life he had lived from childhood; and so he declared that above all he would be loyal to the holy laws given by God. He told them to send him at once to the abode of the dead, explaining: (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
"At our age it would be unbecoming to make such a pretense; many young men would think the ninety-year-old Eleazar had gone over to an alien religion. (2 Maccabees 6, 24)
Should I thus dissimulate for the sake of a brief moment of life, they would be led astray by me, while I would bring shame and dishonor on my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will prove myself worthy of my old age, (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
After him the third suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue at once when told to do so, and bravely held out his hands, (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
