World English Bible

2 Maccabees 8:34-36 World English Bible (WEB)

34. And the thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews for slaves,

35. being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, put off his glorious apparel, and passing through the midland, shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, having, as he thought, had the greatest possible good fortune, though his host was destroyed.

36. And he that had taken upon him to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.