2 Maccabees 5:12
“And commaunded his men of warre not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went vp vpon the houses.”
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2 Maccabees 5:12 Context
10And hee that had cast out many vnburied, had none to mourne for him, nor any solemne funerals at all, nor sepulchre with his fathers. 11Now when this that was done came to the kings eare, he thought that Iudea had reuolted, whereupon remouing out of Egypt in a furious minde, he tooke the citie by force of armes, 12And commaunded his men of warre not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went vp vpon the houses. 13Thus there was killing of yong and old, making away of men, women and children, slaying of virgins and infants. 14And there were destroyed within the space of three whole daies, fourescore thousand, whereof fourty thousand were slaine in the conflict; and no fewer sold, then slaine.
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And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.
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