2 Maccabees 1:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Since Antiochus came in order to marry the goddess, he and his political advisors^[a] came into the temple^[b] to take the great wealth as payment for her dowry. ¹⁵ When the priests of Nanea had set it out, the king entered with a few men into the enclosed space of the shrine. After closing off the temple as Antiochus entered, ¹⁶ and opening the hidden door of the ceiling, they threw stones that struck down the ruler like a bolt of lightning. After dismembering and beheading the bodies, they tossed the heads to those outside.