2 Maccabees 8:14

14 Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time besought the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them,

2 Maccabees 8:14 In-Context

12 Word came to Judas concerning Nicanor's invasion; and when he told his companions of the arrival of the army,

13 those who were cowardly and distrustful of God's justice ran off and got away.

14 Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time besought the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them,

15 if not for their own sake, yet for the sake of the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his holy and glorious name.

16 But Maccabeus gathered his men together, to the number six thousand, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy and not to fear the great multitude of Gentiles who were wickedly coming against them, but to fight nobly,