2 Maccabees 8:15

15 and if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants He had made with their fathers and for His holy and glorious name's sake by which they were called.

2 Maccabees 8:15 In-Context

13 those who were fearful and distrusted the justice of God fled, and conveyed themselves away.

14 Others sold all that they had left, and thereupon besought the Lord to deliver them, being sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met together,

15 and if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants He had made with their fathers and for His holy and glorious name's sake by which they were called.

16 So Maccabeus called his men together unto the number of six thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terror by the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongly against them, but to fight manfully,

17 and to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city, whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers.