Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 4:7
Source: Septuagint
Original
7And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.
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5and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force,
6he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasury.
— 4 Maccabees 4:7 —
8But Apollonius went away with threats into the temple.
9And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,