3 Maccabees 5:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ that he avert with vengeance the evil plot against them and in a glorious manifestation rescue them from the fate now prepared for them. ⁹ So their entreaty ascended fervently to heaven.

¹⁰ Hermon, however, when he had drugged the pitiless elephants until they had been filled with a great abundance of wine and satiated with frankincense, presented himself at the courtyard early in the morning to report to the king about these preparations.