2 Maccabees 3:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said that by all means the money must be carried to the king.

¹⁴ So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.

¹⁵ And the priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them.