2 Maccabees 9:14–16

¹⁴That ^athe holy city (^bto the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place,) he would set at liberty: ¹⁵and as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens: ¹⁶and the holy temple, ^cwhich before he had spoiled, he would garnish with goodly ^dgifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and ^eout of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices: