2 Maccabees 5:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ Everyone in the city prayed that these visions might be a good sign.

Jason Attacks Jerusalem

⁵ When a false report began to spread that Antiochus had died, Jason took more than a thousand men and suddenly attacked Jerusalem. They drove back those stationed on the city walls and finally captured the city. Menelaus fled for safety to the fort, near the Temple hill, ⁶ while Jason and his men went on slaughtering their fellow Jews without mercy. Jason did not realize that success against one's own people is the worst kind of failure. He even considered his success a victory over enemies, rather than a defeat of his own people.