2 Maccabees 4:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ For this reason a dangerous situation engulfed them. Those same people to whom they were devoted and whose way of life they wished to imitate became their enemies and inflicted punishment on them. ¹⁷ To be ungodly in the face of the divine laws isn’t a light matter, as the following events would reveal.

¹⁸ Once when the king was present at the athletic games they held every five years in Tyre,