36. The priests, however, went in and stood before the altar and the sanctuary. They wept and said:
37. “You have chosen this house to bear your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people.
38. Take revenge on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword. Remember their blasphemies, and do not let them continue.”
39. Nicanor left Jerusalem and camped at Beth-horon, where the Syrian army joined him.
40. But Judas camped in Adasa with three thousand men. Here Judas uttered this prayer: