2 Maccabees 12:39-41

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁹ And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.

⁴⁰ And they found under the coats of the slain some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.

⁴¹ Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden.