2 Maccabees 14:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² and that he had taken control of the country after having done away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias.

³ Now a man named Alcimus, a former high priest who had willfully incurred defilement at the time of the revolt, realized that there was no possible way that his safety could be assured or that he could again have access to the holy altar. ⁴ Therefore, he went to King Demetrius about the year one hundred and fifty-one and presented him with a crown of gold and a palm branch, in addition to some of the customary olive branches from the temple. On that occasion, he kept silent.