2 Maccabees 15:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was for the holiness of the temple.

¹⁹ And they also that were in the city, had no little concern for them that were to be engaged in battle.

²⁰ And now when all expected what judgment would be given, and the enemies were at hand, and the army was set in array, the beasts and the horsemen ranged in convenient places,