2 Maccabees 4:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ For he saw that without the king’s attention public affairs could not again reach a peaceful settlement, and that Simon would not stop his folly.

Jason’s Reforms

⁷ When Seleucus died and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high priesthood by corruption, ⁸ promising the king at an interview^[a] three hundred sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents.