33 As they celebrated the feast of victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set the sacred gates on fire, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a little house. So they received the proper reward for their impiety. (WEB) 34 The thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews as slaves, (WEB) 35 being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, took off his glorious apparel, and passing through the country, shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, having, as he thought, had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 8:33–35
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2 Maccabees 15:31–33
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1 Maccabees 11:47–49
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