2 Maccabees 5:14-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ And there were slain in the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, forty thousand were made prisoners, and as many sold.

¹⁵ But this was not enough; he presumed also to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the world, Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his country, being his guide.

¹⁶ And taking in his wicked hands the holy vessels, which were given by other kings and cities, for the ornament and the glory of the place, he unworthily handled and profaned them.