2 Maccabees 10:34-36

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁴ The men within, relying on the strength of the place, blasphemed terribly and hurled out wicked words. ³⁵ But at dawn of the fifth day, twenty young men in the army of Maccabe′us, fired with anger because of the blasphemies, bravely stormed the wall and with savage fury cut down every one they met. ³⁶ Others who came up in the same way wheeled around against the defenders and set fire to the towers; they kindled fires and burned the blasphemers alive. Others broke open the gates and let in the rest of the force, and they occupied the city.