2 Maccabees 11:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

11 A short time after this Lysias the king's lieutenant, and cousin, and who had chief charge over all the affairs, being greatly displeased with what had happened,

² Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles:

³ And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: