3 Maccabees 1:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁴ And someone answered thoughtlessly that it was wrong to take that as a portent.^{[a] 15} ‘But since this has happened’, the king^[b] said, ‘why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?’

Jewish Resistance to Ptolemy

¹⁶ Then the priests in all their vestments prostrated themselves and entreated the supreme God^[c] to aid in the present situation and to avert the violence of this evil design, and they filled the temple with cries and tears;