, if he would pacify the king
toward him.

2 Mac 4:46
Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain
gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of
another mind:

2 Mac 4:47
Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations,
who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those
poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the
Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned
to death.

2 Mac 4:48
Thus they that followed the matter for the city, and for the
people, and for the holy vessels, did soon suffer unjust
punishment.

2 Mac 4:49
Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that
wicked deed, caused them to be honourably buried.

2 Mac 4:50
And so through the covetousness of them that were of power
Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and
being a great traitor to the citizens.

2 Mac 5:1
About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into
Egypt:

2 Mac 5:2
And then it happened, that through all the city, for the
space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in
the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of
soldiers,

2 Mac 5:3
And troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one
against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of
pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and
glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.

2 Mac 5:4
Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to
good.

2 Mac 5:5
Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though
Antiochus had been dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men,
and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were
upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken,
Menelaus fled into the castle:

2 Mac 5:6
But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not
considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would
be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his
enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.

2 Mac 5:7
Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at
the last received shame for the reward of his treason, and fled
again into the country of the Ammonites.

2 Mac 5:8
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused
before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to
city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and
being had in abomination as an ope