3 Maccabees 1:20-22

Common English Bible

²⁰ Mothers and nurses left newborn children here and there, some in houses, some in the streets, and crowded together into the most high temple without looking back. ²¹ The people who assembled offered all kinds of prayers on account of the evil plot of the king. ²² Some of the bolder citizens weren’t going to put up with his intended plan or fulfill what he had in mind.