2 Maccabees 15:34-36

Common English Bible

³⁴ Looking to heaven, everyone praised the Lord, who had made himself known, saying, “Blessed is the one who kept his own holy place pure.” ³⁵ Judas hung Nicanor’s head from the elevated fortress in plain sight of all, as a clear sign of the Lord’s help. ³⁶ The people decided to issue a regulation forbidding anyone to forget this day but reminding all to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, called Adar^[a] in the Syrian language, the day before Mordecai’s day.