2 Maccabees 14:13-15

Wycliffe Bible

¹³ with commandments given for to take that Judas quick (or alive), for to scatter soothly them that were with him, and for to ordain Alcimus highest priest of the most (or the great) temple.

¹⁴ Then (the) heathen men, that fled Judas from Judea, flock-meal joined them(selves) to Nicanor, and guessed the wretchednesses and deaths of (the) Jews [or guessing the mis-eases and deaths of Jews] (to be) prosperities of (or for) their things.

¹⁵ Therefore when (the) coming of Nicanor was heard, and (the) coming together of (the) nations, (the) Jews besprinkled with earth prayed him, that ordained his people into without end for to keep, and which covereth, or defendeth, his part with open signs.