1 Maccabees 7:34-44

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 At this the priests went in and stood before the altar and the temple; they wept and said,
37 "You chose this house to be called by your name, and to be for your people a house of prayer and supplication.
38 Take vengeance on this man and on his army, and let them fall by the sword; remember their blasphemies, and let them live no longer."
39 Now Nicanor went out from Jerusalem and encamped in Beth-horon, and the Syrian army joined him.
40 Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men. Then Judas prayed and said,
41 "When the messengers from the king spoke blasphemy, your angel went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians.
42 So also crush this army before us today; let the rest learn that Nicanor has spoken wickedly against the sanctuary, and judge him according to this wickedness."
43 So the armies met in battle on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. The army of Nicanor was crushed, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.
44 When his army saw that Nicanor had fallen, they threw down their arms and fled.

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