2 Maccabees 1:21

21 then he commanded them to draw it up and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the liquid.

2 Maccabees 1:21 In-Context

19 For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests who were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in a hollow place of a pit without water where they kept it secure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

20 Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, being sent from the king of Persia, sent the descend-ants of those priests, who had hid the fire, to it. But when they told us they found no fire, but thick liquid,

21 then he commanded them to draw it up and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the liquid.

22 When this was done and the time came that the sun shone, which before was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marveled.

23 And the priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, I say, both the priests and all the rest, Jonathan beginning and the rest answering thereunto as Nehemiah did.