⁹ After he had arrived in Jerusalem, he offered sacrifice to the supreme God and made thank offerings and did what was fitting for the place. Then, upon entering the place and being impressed by its excellence and its beauty,^(A)

Jewish Resistance to Ptolemy

¹⁶ Then the priests in all their vestments prostrated themselves and entreated the supreme God to aid in the present situation and to avert the violence of this evil design, and they filled the temple with cries and tears;^(A)

²⁵ But the Jews, being at that very moment at their last gasp, stretched their hands toward heaven and with most tearful supplication and mournful dirges implored the supreme God to help them again at once.^(A)

²² Besides, they all recovered all of their property, in accordance with the registration, so that those who held any of it restored it to them with extreme fear.^[a] So the supreme God perfectly performed great deeds for their deliverance.^(A)