3 Maccabees 1:14-16

Revised Standard Version

¹⁴ And someone heedlessly said that it was wrong to take this as a sign in itself. ¹⁵ “But since this has happened,” the king^[a] 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^[b] to aid in the present situation and to avert the violence of this evil design, and they filled the temple with cries and tears;