2 Maccabees 11:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ When Maccabeus and his men were informed that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people implored the Lord with lamentations and tears to send a good angel to deliver Israel. ⁷ Maccabeus himself was the first to take up arms, and he urged the others to join him in risking their lives to save their fellow Jews. Then they all resolutely set out together. ⁸ And while they were still near Jerusalem, a horseman suddenly appeared at their head, clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold.