1 Maccabees 7:32-34

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³² And there fell of Nicanor's army almost five thousand men, and they fled into the city of David.

³³ And after this Nicanor went up into mount Sion: and some of the priests and the people came out to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the holocausts that were offered for the king.

³⁴ But he mocked them and despised them, and abused them: and he spoke proudly,