2 Maccabees 1:23

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.

2 Maccabees 1:23 In-Context

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.

24 And the prayer was in this manner: `O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong and righteous and merciful and the only and gracious King,

25 the only giver of all things, the only just, almighty, and everlasting, Thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, and didst choose the fathers, and sanctify them,