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2 Maccabees 4:42-45 World English Bible (WEB)

42. by reason of which they wounded many of them, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury.

43. But touching these matters there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

44. And when the king was come to Tyre, the three men that were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him.

45. But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.