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Then some of the friends of Heliodorus forthwith begged of Onias, that he would call upon the most High to grant him his life, who was ready to give up the ghost. (2 Maccabees 3, 31)
So the high priest considering that the king might perhaps suspect that some mischief had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice of health for the recovery of the man. (2 Maccabees 3, 32)
And when the high priest was praying, the same young men in the same clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to him: Give thanks to Onias the priest: because for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)
But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious, had taken possession of the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias ambitiously sought the high priesthood: (2 Maccabees 4, 7)
Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch and no priest. (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
But he being recommended to the king, when he had magnified the appearance of his power, got the high priesthood for himself, by offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
So having received the king's man- date, he returned bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Moreover they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with Timotheus and Bacchides who fought them, and they made themselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst them many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless and the widows, yea and the aged also. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year: (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Now there was in that place a tower fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes on every side: this had a prospect steep down. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
Now one Alcimus, who had been chief priest, but had wilfully defiled himself in the time of mingling with the heathens, seeing that there was no safety for him, nor access to the altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
For I also being deprived of my ancestors' glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither: (2 Maccabees 14, 7)
