2 Maccabees 15:34-36

Wycliffe Bible

³⁴ Therefore all blessed the Lord of heaven, and said, [or saying], Blessed be the Lord, that kept his place undefouled.

³⁵ Forsooth he hanged up Nicanor’s head in the highest tower, (so) that it were (an) evident, or known, and open sign of the help of God.

³⁶ Therefore all men, by common counsel, deemed in no manner for to pass this day without solemnity, but for to have solemnity [or worshipping] in (or on) the thirteenth day of the month Adar, that is said, by voice of Syria, (or in the Syrian language), the first day of Mordecai.