2 Maccabees 9:14-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ And the city to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a, common buryingplace, he now desireth to make free.

¹⁵ And the Jews whom he said he would not account worthy to be so much as buried, but would give them up to be devoured by the birds and wild beasts, and would utterly destroy them with their children, he now promiseth to make equal with the Athenians.

¹⁶ The holy temple also which before he had spoiled, he promiseth to adorn with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy vessels, and to allow out of his revenues the charges pertaining to the sacrifices.