3 Maccabees 5:9-11

Common English Bible

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. ¹¹ But God sent to the king a portion of sleep, the precious creation from before recorded time, granted night and day by the one who gives it generously to whomever he wishes.