1 Maccabees 7:37-39

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³⁷‘You chose this house to be called by your name,
    and to be for your people a house of prayer and supplication.
³⁸Take vengeance on this man and on his army,
    and let them fall by the sword;
remember their blasphemies,
    and let them live no longer.’

The Death of Nicanor

³⁹Now Nicanor went out from Jerusalem and encamped in Beth-horon, and the Syrian army joined him.

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