2 Maccabees 3:38-40

New Catholic Bible

³⁸ “If you have an enemy or someone who has been a traitor to your government, send him there. You will get him back soundly flogged, if indeed he manages to survive at all. Without question, there is some peculiarly divine power about the place. ³⁹ He who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and protects it, and he strikes down and destroys those who come to do it harm.” ⁴⁰ This was the outcome of the episode of Heliodorus and the preservation of the treasury.