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2 Maccabees 1:15

Listen to 2 Maccabees 1:15
15 And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple,

2 Maccabees 1:15 In-Context

13 For when the leader himself was in Persia, and with him a very great army, he fell in the temple of Nanea, being deceived by the counsel of the priests of Nanea.
14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came to the place as though he would marry her, and that he might receive great sums of money under the title of a dowry.
15 And when the priests of Nanea had set it forth, and he with a small company had entered into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple,
16 When Antiochus was came in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces, and cutting off their heads they threw them forth.
17 Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked.
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