Antiochus's Exile in Egypt

Jason kept relentlessly slaughtering his fellow citizens, not realizing that success at the cost of one's kindred is the greatest misfortune. When news of what had happened reached the king, he took it to mean that Judea was in revolt so raging inwardly he left Egypt and took the city by storm. Within the total of three days, eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting and as many were sold into slavery as were slain. And besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens, Antiochus sent Apollonius, the captain of the Chamezians,