2 Maccabees 3:37-39

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁷ And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once more to Jerusalem, he said:

³⁸ If thou hast any enemy or traitor to thy kingdom, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape: for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God.

³⁹ For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor, and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it.