1 Maccabees 7:37-39

New Catholic Bible

³⁷ “You have chosen this house to bear your name and to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people. ³⁸ Exact vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword. Remember their blasphemies and grant them no reprieve.”

³⁹ Judas Routs the Enemy. Nicanor left Jerusalem and encamped at Beth-horon, where he was joined by an army from Syria.