2 Maccabees 3:13-15

New Catholic Bible

¹³ However, because of the orders he had received from the king, Heliodorus stated that he had no other choice but to confiscate the money for the royal treasury. ¹⁴ And so, on the day he had designated for the purpose, he went in to draw up an inventory of the funds.

Distress of the Faithful. There was immense distress throughout the city. ¹⁵ The priests prostrated themselves in their priestly vestments before the altar and prayed to him in heaven who had issued the law governing deposits^[a] to keep those funds intact for those who had deposited them. Read full chapter