2 Maccabees 13:9
“The history that recounts the war of Antiochus Eupator and his steward Lysias against the Jews has already been mentioned in the previous book and there explained also according to allegory. But it is now related in sequence that four thousand men in the king's camp were killed by the Jews during the night, and the gr…”
9Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father’s time.
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7Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:
8For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
— 2 Maccabees 13:9 —
10Which things when Judas perceived, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:
11And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.