2 Maccabees 3:13-15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Heliodorus Plans to Rob the Temple

¹³ But Heliodorus, because of the orders he had from the king, said that this money must in any case be confiscated for the king’s treasury. ¹⁴ So he set a day and went in to direct the inspection of these funds.

There was no little distress throughout the whole city. ¹⁵ The priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priestly vestments and called toward heaven upon him who had given the law about deposits, that he should keep them safe for those who had deposited them.