3 Maccabees 6:33-35

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³³ Likewise also the king, after convening a lavish banquet to celebrate these events, gave thanks to heaven unceasingly and lavishly for the unexpected rescue that he^[a] had experienced. ³⁴ Those who had previously believed that the Jews would be destroyed and become food for birds and had joyfully registered them groaned as they themselves were overcome by disgrace and their fire-breathing boldness was ignominiously^[b] quenched.

³⁵ The Jews, as we have said before, arranged the aforementioned choral group^[c] and passed the time in feasting to the accompaniment of joyous thanksgiving and psalms.^(A)