32
About five hundred men of the army of Nicanor fell, and the rest fled into the city of David.
33
After these events Nicanor went up to Mount Zion. Some of the priests came out of the sanctuary, and some of the elders of the people, to greet him peaceably and to show him the burnt offering that was being offered for the king.
34
But he mocked them and derided them and defiled them and spoke arrogantly,
35
and in anger he swore this oath, "Unless Judas and his army are delivered into my hands this time, then if I return safely I will burn up this house." And he went out in great anger.
36
Then the priests went in and stood before the altar and the temple, and they wept and said,
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