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When the quadrennial games were being held at Tyre and the king was present, (2 Maccabees 4, 18)
When Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent to Egypt for the coronation of Philometor as king, Antiochus learned that Philometor had become hostile to his government, and he took measures for his own security. Therefore upon arriving at Joppa he proceeded to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 4, 21)
After a period of three years Jason sent Menelaus, the brother of the previously mentioned Simon, to carry the money to the king and to complete the records of essential business. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)
But he, when presented to the king, extolled him with an air of authority, and secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
After receiving the king's orders he returned, possessing no qualification for the high priesthood, but having the hot temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage wild beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
And Menelaus held the office, but he did not pay regularly any of the money promised to the king. (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
When Sostratus the captain of the citadel kept requesting payment, for the collection of the revenue was his responsibility, the two of them were summoned by the king on account of this issue. (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
While such was the state of affairs, it happened that the people of Tarsus and of Mallus revolted because their cities had been given as a present to Antiochis, the king's concubine. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
So the king went hastily to settle the trouble, leaving Andronicus, a man of high rank, to act as his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews in the city appealed to him with regard to the unreasonable murder of Onias, and the Greeks shared their hatred of the crime. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
When the king came to Tyre, three men sent by the senate presented the case before him. (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
