2 Maccabees 3:37-39
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
37 When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of person would be suitable to be sent to Jerusalem next, he answered: 38 “If you have an enemy or one who is plotting against the government, send him there, and you will get him back with a flogging, if indeed he survives at all; for there is certainly some divine power about the place. 39 The one whose dwelling is in heaven watches over that place and protects it, and strikes down and destroys those who come to harm it.”
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