| II Maccabees 1:16
| When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces; and cutting off their heads they threw them forth.
| Slew. Literally, "struck." Greek, "stoned." Yet Epiphanes escaped, (chap. 10:9., and 1 Machabees vi.) having received some wounds. But a fall from his chariot, and vexation, hastened his death. (Haydock) --- Some of his followers, who had advanced farther into the temple, perished. (Calmet)
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