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Young Antiochus then wrote as follows to Jonathan: 'I confirm you in the high-priesthood and set you over the four districts and appoint you one of the Friends of the King.' (1 Maccabees 11, 57)
'Your brother Jonathan was in debt to the royal exchequer for the offices he held; that is why we are detaining him. (1 Maccabees 13, 15)
'Furthermore, it is against the law for any member of the public or of the priesthood to contravene any of these enactments or to contest his decisions, or to convene a meeting anywhere in the country without his permission, or to assume the purple or wear the golden brooch; (1 Maccabees 14, 44)
All debts to the royal treasury, present or future, are cancelled henceforth in perpetuity. (1 Maccabees 15, 8)
God, who has saved his whole people, conferring heritage, kingdom, priesthood and sanctification on all of us, (2 Maccabees 2, 17)
But Heliodorus, because of his instructions from the king, peremptorily insisted that the funds must be confiscated for the royal exchequer. (2 Maccabees 3, 13)
When Seleucus had departed this life and Antiochus styled Epiphanes had succeeded to the kingdom, Jason, brother of Onias, usurped the high priesthood: (2 Maccabees 4, 7)
But Menelaus, on being presented to the king, flattered him by his own appearance of authority, and so secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
He returned with the royal mandate, bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood and supported only by the fury of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
When Philip saw Judas was making steady progress and winning more and more frequent successes, he wrote to Ptolemy, the general officer commanding Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, asking for reinforcements in the royal interest. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
That is why, after being deprived of my hereditary dignity -- I mean the high priesthood -- I have come here now, (2 Maccabees 14, 7)
down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word like a pitiless warrior into the heart of a land doomed to destruction. Carrying your unambiguous command like a sharp sword, (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 15)
