3 Maccabees 1:15

15 "But since this has happened," the king ^[a] said, "why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?"

3 Maccabees 1:15 In-Context

13 And he inquired why, when he entered every other temple, no one there had stopped him.

14 And someone answered thoughtlessly that it was wrong to take that as a portent.

15 "But since this has happened," the king said, "why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?"

16 Then the priests in all their vestments prostrated themselves and entreated the supreme God to aid in the present situation and to avert the violence of this evil design, and they filled the temple with cries and tears;

17 those who remained behind in the city were agitated and hurried out, supposing that something mysterious was occurring.

Footnotes

• [a] Gk [he]