3 Maccabees 5:34-36

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁴ The king’s Friends one by one sullenly slipped away and dismissed^[a] the assembled people to their own occupations. ³⁵ Then the Jews, on hearing what the king had said, praised the manifest Lord God, King of kings, since this also was his aid that they had received.

³⁶ The king, however, reconvened the party in the same manner and urged the guests to return to their celebrating.