2 Maccabees 13:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was condemned to die in ashes.

⁹ But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.

¹⁰ Which, when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would help them: