2 Maccabees 5:1-2

Wycliffe Bible

5 In the same time Antiochus made ready the second going into Egypt.

² Forsooth it befell, that by each city (or through all the city) of (the) men of Jerusalem, were seen by forty days [or for to be seen forty days], horsemen running about by the air, having golden stoles, and shafts, as companies of knights armed;