2 Maccabees 8:33

33 While celebrating victory in their homeland, they burned alive those who had set on fire the sacred gates, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a small house, so that he received the just reward for his sin.

2 Maccabees 8:33 In-Context

31 They carefully placed the captured armor all together in strategic places, but the rest of the spoils they carried into Jerusalem.
32 They killed the commander of Timothy's troops, a most ungodly man who had caused grief to many Jews.
33 While celebrating victory in their homeland, they burned alive those who had set on fire the sacred gates, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a small house, so that he received the just reward for his sin.
34 But the utterly corrupt Nicanor, who had invited one thousand merchants for the sale of the Jews,
35 was humiliated with the Lord's help by those he despised the most. He stripped off his stately uniform and traveled into Antioch by the inland road like a lone fugitive, having succeeded only in destroying his own army.

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  • [a]. Correction; Gk uncertain
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