2 Maccabees 5:21-23
New Catholic Bible
21 The Governor Mistreats the Jews. Antiochus hurried back to Antioch, taking with him eighteen hundred talents from the temple. He was so arrogant that, in his pride, he thought he could sail on the land and traverse the sea on foot. 22 However, he left governors behind to oppress the people: at Jerusalem he left Philip, a Phrygian by birth[a] and with a more barbarous nature than the one who appointed him, 23 and, at Mount Gerizim,[b] Andronicus; and in addition to these there was Menelaus who lorded it over his compatriots worse than the others did.
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