32. The high priest, fearful that perhaps the king might think that the Jews had done something evil to Heliodorus, offered a sacrifice for the man’s recovery.
33. While the high priest was making the sacrifice for reconciliation, the same two young men, dressed in the same clothing, appeared again to Heliodorus. They stood by him and said, "You owe Onias the high priest your gratitude. Because of him the Lord has graciously given life to you.
34. But you who suffered a beating from heaven must proclaim the great power of God to all." Once they said these things, they disappeared.
35. Heliodorus offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made many solemn promises to the savior for sparing his life. After thanking Onias, he took his military force back to the king.
36. He testified to everyone about the works of the great God that he had seen with his own eyes.
37. When the king asked Heliodorus who would be the right sort of person to send again to Jerusalem, he said:
38. "If you have an enemy or someone plotting against your government, send him, and he will come back badly beaten if he should come back at all, because some divine power truly surrounds the temple.
39. The one who lives in heaven watches over that place and will strike and destroy anyone coming with evil intent."
40. So this is how matters turned out concerning Heliodorus and the guarding of the treasury.