2 Maccabees 8:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the Jews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand.

¹³ And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of God, fled away:

¹⁴ Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them before he came near them: