2 Maccabees 13:11

and that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.

And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.

and not to allow the people who had just begun to be revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen.