2 Maccabees 8:34-36

Good News Translation

³⁴ In this way, the evil Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews, ³⁵ was defeated with the help of the Lord by the very people he despised so much. He threw off his splendid uniform and fled all alone like a runaway slave, until he reached Antioch. He had succeeded only in destroying his entire army. ³⁶ This man, who had tried to pay a debt to Rome by selling the people of Jerusalem, showed that the Jews could not be defeated. God was their mighty Defender, because they obeyed the laws he had given them.