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When he had been introduced to the king, he flattered him with such an air of authority that he secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)
Although Menelaus had obtained the office, he did not make any payments of the money he had promised to the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
in spite of the demand of Sostratus, the commandant of the citadel, whose duty it was to collect the taxes. For this reason, both were summoned before the king. (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
While these things were taking place, the people of Tarsus and Mallus rose in revolt, because their cities had been given as a gift to Antiochis, the king's mistress. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
The king, therefore, went off in haste to settle the affair, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, as his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
When the king returned from the region of Cilicia, the Jews of the city, together with the Greeks who detested the crime, went to see him about the murder of Onias. (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
When the king came to Tyre, three men sent by the senate presented to him the justice of their cause. (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
But Menelaus, seeing himself on the losing side, promised Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes, a substantial sum of money if he would win the king over. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
So Ptolemy retired with the king under a colonnade, as if to get some fresh air, and persuaded him to change his mind. (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
Menelaus, who was the cause of all the trouble, the king acquitted of the charges, while he condemned to death those poor men who would have been declared innocent even if they had pleaded their case before Scythians. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
At length he met a miserable end. Called to account before Aretas, king of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hunted by all men, hated as a transgressor of the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen. After being driven into Egypt, (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
When these happenings were reported to the king, he thought that Judea was in revolt. Raging like a wild animal, he set out from Egypt and took Jerusalem by storm. (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
