2 Maccabees 5:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

² And it happened that, for almost forty days, there appeared over all the city golden-clad cavalry charging through the air, in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords— ³ troops of cavalry drawn up, attacks and counter-attacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armour of all kinds. ⁴ Therefore everyone prayed that the apparition might prove to have been a good omen.