2 Maccabees 1:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ The ruler and his armed forces that went into Persia seemed invincible. But they were slain in the goddess Nanea’s temple, when Nanea’s priests tricked them. ¹⁴ Since Antiochus came in order to marry the goddess, he and his political advisors^[a] came into the temple^[b] to take the great wealth as payment for her dowry. ¹⁵ When the priests of Nanea had set it out, the king entered with a few men into the enclosed space of the shrine. After closing off the temple as Antiochus entered,