2 Maccabees 3:36-38

Common English Bible

³⁶ He testified to everyone about the works of the great God that he had seen with his own eyes. ³⁷ When the king asked Heliodorus who would be the right sort of person to send again to Jerusalem, he said: ³⁸ “If you have an enemy or someone plotting against your government, send him, and he will come back badly beaten if he should come back at all, because some divine power truly surrounds the temple.^[a]