2 Maccabees 15:4

²Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honor to that day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honored with holiness above other days.

³Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the Sabbath day to be kept.

— 2 Maccabees 15:4 —

⁵then said the other, And I also am mighty upon earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king’s business. Yet he obtained not to have his wicked will done.

⁶So Nicanor in exceeding pride and haughtiness determined to set up a public monument of his victory over Judas and them that were with him.