2 Maccabees 8:32-34

Common English Bible

³² They killed the commander of Timothy’s troops, a most ungodly man who had caused grief to many Jews. ³³ While celebrating victory in their homeland, they burned alive those who had set on fire the sacred gates, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a small house, so that he received the just reward for his sin.^{[a] 34} But the utterly corrupt Nicanor, who had invited one thousand merchants for the sale of the Jews,