2 Maccabees 9:4 CEVDCUS06

4 This made him furious, and he decided to take revenge on our people for the defeat he had just suffered at Persepolis. So he told his chariot driver to take him straight to Jerusalem. In his arrogance he thought, “I'll turn Jerusalem into a pile of Jewish bones!”Antiochus did not realize that the Lord God of Israel was about to punish him.

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