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So that Seleucus king of Asia allowed out of his revenues all the charges be- longing to the ministry of the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
And the priests prostrated them- selves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
But Heliodorus executed that which he had resolved on, himself being present in the same place with his guard about the treasury. (2 Maccabees 3, 23)
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)
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)
Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites (2 Maccabees 4, 26)
Then Menelaus supposing that he had found a convenient time, having stolen certain vessels of gold out of the temple, gave them to Andronicus, and others he had sold at Tyre, and in the neighbouring cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
Which when Onias understood most certainly, he reproved him, keeping him- self in a safe place at Antioch beside Daphne. (2 Maccabees 4, 33)
Now when many sacrileges had been committed by Lysimachus in the temple by the counsel of Menelaus, and the rumour of it was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, a great quantity of gold being already carried away. (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
And many of them were wounded, and some struck down to the ground, but all were put to flight: and as for the sacrilegious fellow himself, they slew him beside the treasury. (2 Maccabees 4, 42)
So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind: (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
Thus they that prosecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
