2 Maccabees 3:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

¹³ But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said that by all means the money must be carried to the king.

¹⁴ So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.