2 Maccabees 5:11-13

Good News Translation

Antiochus Attacks Jerusalem^(A)

¹¹ When the news of what had happened in Jerusalem reached Antiochus, he thought the whole country of Judea was in revolt, and he became as furious as a wild animal. So he left Egypt and took Jerusalem by storm, ¹² giving his men orders to cut down without mercy everyone they met and to slaughter anyone they found hiding in the houses. ¹³ They murdered everyone—men and women, boys and girls; even babies were butchered.