2 Maccabees 15:31-33

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³¹ When he arrived there and had called his compatriots together and stationed the priests before the altar, he sent for those who were in the citadel.^{(A) 32} He showed them the vile Nicanor’s head and that profane man’s arm, which had been boastfully stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty.^{(B) 33} He cut out the tongue of the ungodly Nicanor and said that he would feed it piecemeal to the birds and would hang up these rewards of his folly opposite the sanctuary.^(C)