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When the King's Friend, Athenobius, reached Jerusalem and saw Simon's magnificence, his cabinet of gold and silver plate and the state he kept, he was dumbfounded. He delivered the king's message, (1 Maccabees 15, 32)
Blessed in all things be our God, who has delivered the sacrilegious over to death! (2 Maccabees 1, 17)
the only provider, who alone are just, almighty and everlasting, the deliverer of Israel from every evil, who made our fathers your chosen ones and sanctified them, (2 Maccabees 1, 25)
Apollonius met the king and told him about the wealth that had been disclosed to him; whereupon the king selected Heliodorus, his chancellor, and sent him with instructions to effect the removal of the reported wealth. (2 Maccabees 3, 7)
Heliodorus lost no time in setting out, ostensibly to inspect the towns of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, but in fact to accomplish the king's purpose. (2 Maccabees 3, 8)
But Heliodorus, because of his instructions from the king, peremptorily insisted that the funds must be confiscated for the royal exchequer. (2 Maccabees 3, 13)
Heliodorus set about his appointed task. (2 Maccabees 3, 23)
He had already arrived with his bodyguard near the Treasury, when the Sovereign of spirits and of every power caused so great an apparition that all who had dared to accompany Heliodorus were dumbfounded at the power of God and reduced to abject terror. (2 Maccabees 3, 24)
Before their eyes appeared a horse richly caparisoned and carrying a fearsome rider. Rearing violently, it struck at Heliodorus with its forefeet. The rider was seen to be accoutred entirely in gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 25)
Suddenly Heliodorus fell to the ground, enveloped in thick darkness. His men came to his rescue and placed him in a litter, (2 Maccabees 3, 27)
While Heliodorus lay prostrate under the divine visitation, speechless and bereft of all hope of deliverance, (2 Maccabees 3, 29)
Some of Heliodorus' companions quickly begged Onias to entreat the Most High to grant the man his life, lying as he did at the very point of death. (2 Maccabees 3, 31)
