2 Maccabees 13:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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. ⁴ But the King of kings aroused the anger of Anti′ochus against the scoundrel; and when Lys′ias informed him that this man was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to take him to Beroe′a and to put him to death by the method which is the custom in that place.