2 Maccabees 2:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ as he promised through the law. For we have hope in God that he will soon have mercy upon us and will gather us from everywhere under heaven into his holy place, for he has rescued us from great evils and has purified the place.

The Compiler’s Preface

¹⁹ The story of Judas Maccabe′us and his brothers, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar, ²⁰ and further the wars against Anti′ochus Epiph′anes and his son Eu′pator,