2 Maccabees 8:34-36

Common English Bible

³⁴ But the utterly corrupt Nicanor, who had invited one thousand merchants for the sale of the Jews, ³⁵ was humiliated with the Lord’s help by those he despised the most. He stripped off his stately uniform and traveled into Antioch by the inland road like a lone fugitive, having succeeded only in destroying his own army. ³⁶ The one who accepted the mission to collect the tribute for the Romans from the Jerusalem prisoners of war announced publicly that the Jews had a defender and that, as a result, the Jews couldn’t be defeated because they followed God’s ordained laws.