2 Maccabees 15:31-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³¹ And when he was come thither, having called together his countrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that were in the castle,

³² And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God,

³³ He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor, should be cut out and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple.