2 Maccabees 8:13-15

Good News Translation

¹³ Some were cowardly and did not believe in the justice of God, and they ran away as fast as they could. ¹⁴ But others sold all their remaining possessions so that the Lord would consider them worthy to be saved from the godless Nicanor, who had sold them as slaves even before the battle had taken place. ¹⁵ They prayed that if God was not willing to do this for their sake alone, he might be willing to rescue them because of the covenants he had made with their ancestors, and because he, the great and wonderful God, had called them to be his people.