2 Maccabees 4:42-48
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42 Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee: but as for the churchrobber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.
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43 Of these matters therefore there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.
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44 Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:
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45 But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would pacify the king toward him.
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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:
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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.
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48 Thus they that followed the matter for the city, and for the people, and for the holy vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.