2 Maccabees 4:35-38

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Andronicus Is Punished

³⁵ For this reason not only Jews but many also of other nations were grieved and displeased at the unjust murder of the man. ³⁶ When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews in the city^[a] appealed to him with regard to the unreasonable murder of Onias, and the Greeks shared their hatred of the crime.^{(A) 37} Therefore Antiochus was grieved at heart and filled with pity and wept because of the moderation and good conduct of the deceased.^{(B) 38} Inflamed with anger, he immediately stripped the purple robe from Andronicus, tore off his clothes, and led him around the whole city to that very place where he had committed the outrage against Onias, and there he dispatched the bloodthirsty fellow. The Lord thus repaid him with the punishment he deserved.^(C)