2 Maccabees 13:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Menelaus Is Put to Death

13 In the one hundred and forty-ninth year^[a] word came to Judas and his men that Anti′ochus Eu′pator was coming with a great army against Judea, ² and with him Lys′ias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.

³ Menela′us also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Anti′ochus on, not for the sake of his country’s welfare, but because he thought that he would be established in office.