2 Maccabees 15:30-32

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁰ And Judas, who was altogether ready, in body and mind, to die for his countrymen, commanded that Nicanor's head, and his hand with the shoulder should be cut off, and carried to Jerusalem.

³¹ And when he was come thither, having called together his countrymen, and the priests to the altar, he sent also for them that were in the castle,

³² And shewing them the head of Nicanor, and the wicked hand, which he had stretched out, with proud boasts, against the holy house of the Almighty God,