2 Maccabees 10:24-26

Wycliffe Bible

²⁴ And Timothy (or Timotheus), that before was overcome of (or by) (the) Jews, called [or gathered] together an host of strange (or foreign) multitude, and gathered the multitude of horsemen of Asia, and came with armours, (or with arms, or weapons), as to take Judea.

²⁵ Forsooth Maccabeus, and they that were with him, when he nighed (or approached), besought God, and besprinkled the(ir) head(s) with earth, and before-girded the(ir) loins with hair-shirts,

²⁶ and kneeled down at the brink of the altar, (so) that he should be helpful to them, forsooth that to (the) enemies of them he were (an) enemy [or forsooth that he were (an) enemy to the enemies of them], and were (an) adversary to (their) adversaries, as the law saith.