33 Then we celebrated our victory in Jerusalem, the city of our ancestors, and found Callisthenes and some other enemies hiding in a small house. They had earlier set the gates of our holy temple on fire, so we burned them alive, just as they deserved.
34 Nicanor was a horrible man who had asked 1,000 slave traders to buy captured Jews.
35 But with the Lord's help, Nicanor was defeated by the very people he most despised. In fact, Nicanor ended up throwing away his fancy uniform and sneaking away by himself like a slave on the run, until he reached the city of Antioch. He had succeeded only in destroying his own army.
36 Nicanor had planned to capture the Jews of Jerusalem and sell them as slaves, so the king could pay his debt to Rome. But now Nicanor told everyone, “God defends and protects the Jews! They obey his laws, and he will never let them be defeated.”