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So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that he had promised unto the king, he took no good order for it, albeit Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it: (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king. (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
While those things were in doing, they of Tarsus and Mallos made insurrection, because they were given to the king's concubine, called Antiochus. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
And when the king was come again from the places about Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city, and certain of the Greeks that abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias was slain without cause. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him: (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would pacify the king toward him. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind: (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
Now when this that was done came to the king's car, he thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms, (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God: (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
