2 Maccabees 5:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ If they hadn’t previously been involved in so many sins, Antiochus would have been forced to abandon his rashness and been defeated at once when he attacked, just like Heliodorus (the one King Seleucus sent to inspect the treasury). ¹⁹ But the Lord didn’t choose the nation because of the place, but the place because of the nation. ²⁰ So the temple^[a] also shared the misfortunes of the nation, but afterward it also shared in its good fortunes. That which the almighty abandoned in his wrath would again be restored with all glory when the nation was reconciled to the great Lord.