3 Maccabees 5:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ that he would turn away the evil plot against them and rescue them with a glorious display of power from their impending fate. ⁹ So their prayer rose earnestly to heaven.

¹⁰ Now when Hermon had made the savage elephants drunk so that they were full of a great quantity of wine and drugged with frankincense, he came to the palace courtyard early in the morning to report to the king.