2 Maccabees 1:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² because he forced those fighting in the holy city to leave.

¹³ The ruler and his armed forces that went into Persia seemed invincible. But they were slain in the goddess Nanea’s temple, when Nanea’s priests tricked them. ¹⁴ Since Antiochus came in order to marry the goddess, he and his political advisors^[a] came into the temple^[b] to take the great wealth as payment for her dowry.