1 Maccabees 7:32-34

New Catholic Bible

³² About five hundred of Nicanor’s men were slain; the rest fled to the City of David.

³³ After these events, Nicanor went up to Mount Zion. Some of the priests from the sanctuary and some of the elders of the people came out to greet him peaceably and to show him the burnt offering that was being offered for the king. ³⁴ But he mocked and jeered at them, defiled them,^[a] and spoke arrogantly,