Try out the new Click here!  2 Maccabees 13 (Revised Standard
Version w/ Apocrypha)  View In My Bible 1 In the one hundred and
forty-ninth year word came to Judas and his men that Antiochus
Eupator was coming with a great army against Judea, 2 and with
him Lysias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each
of them had a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand
infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two
elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes. 3
Menelaus also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged
Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country's welfare, but
because he thought that he would be established in office. 4 But
the King of kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the
scoundrel; and when Lysias informed him that this man was to
blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to take him to Beroea
and to put him to death by the method which is the custom in
that place. 5 For there is a tower in that place, fifty cubits
high, full of ashes, and it has a ri