2 Maccabees 5:5
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5 When a false rumor arose that Antiochus was dead, Jason took no fewer than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault on the city. When the troops on the wall had been forced back and at last the city was being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.(A)
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2 Maccabees 5:15
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Pillage of the Temple
15 Not content with this, Antiochus[a] dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country.(A)
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2 Maccabees 5:23
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23 and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these Menelaus, who lorded it over his compatriots worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens,[a](A)
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- 5.23 Or worse than the others did in his malice toward the Jewish citizens.
2 Maccabees 11:29
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29 Menelaus has informed us that you wish to return home and look after your own affairs.(A)
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2 Maccabees 11:32
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32 And I have also sent Menelaus to encourage you.(A)
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2 Maccabees 13:3
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3 Menelaus also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country’s welfare but because he thought that he would be established in office.(A)
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2 Maccabees 13:7
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7 By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.(A)
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