2 Maccabees 4:6-8

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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,^{(A) 8} promising the king through a petition three hundred sixty talents of silver and from another source of revenue eighty talents.^(B)