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Menelaus held the office but did not pay the amount he promised to the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
although Sostratus, the commander of the Citadel, demanded the payment, since the king had entrusted to him the collection of revenue. The two of them were then summoned by the king because of this. (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Tarsus and Mallus revolted because their cities were given as a gift to Antiochis, the king's concubine. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
The king set out at once to reestablish order, leaving Andronicus, one of his ministers, as his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
When the king returned to the regions of Coele-Syria, the Jews of Jerusalem, together with the Greeks who were for justice, went to see him and complained about the murder of Onias. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
The king was touched and became sad, and even wept as he remembered the personality and noble conduct of the departed. (2 Maccabees 4, 37)
He became angry with Andronicus and immediately removed him from office. Then he ordered that Andronicus be divested of his purple robe, tore his garments off him, and led him all around the city up to the place where Andronicus had murdered Onias, and right there the king ordered that he be put to death - God dealing out to him the punishment he deserved. (2 Maccabees 4, 38)
when the king arrived at Tyre, three men sent by the council of the elders of Jerusalem told him of Menelaus' cruelty. (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
Seeing his ruin, Menelaus promised a great amount of money to Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, in order to have the king in his favor. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
Ptolemy then went with the king privately to a colonnade for some fresh air, and persuaded him to change his mind. (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
The king actually dismissed all the accusations against Menelaus, the cause of all this evil, while he condemned to death Menelaus' unfortunate accusers who would have been acquitted had a tribunal of barbarians judged them. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
Finally, he had a very unfortunate end. Accused before Aretas, the king of the Arabs, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all, scorned as a renegade from the law and hated as the executioner of his country and fellow citizens, he was banished to Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
