2 Maccabees 15:29-31

New Catholic Bible

²⁹ Thereupon, they raised tumultuous shouts in their ancestral tongue in praise of the divine Sovereign.

³⁰ Then Judas, who had devoted himself, body and soul, to the defense of his people and had maintained from his youth his love for his compatriots, ordered them to cut off Nicanor’s head and his whole right arm and carry them to Jerusalem. ³¹ When he arrived there and had called the people together and stationed the priests before the altar, he sent for those in the citadel