Simon Accuses Onias

4 The previously mentioned Simon, who had informed about the money against^[a] his own country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of the misfortune.^(A)

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

⁹ In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it and to enroll the people of Jerusalem as the Antiochenes in Jerusalem.^(A)

¹⁵ they said that the people of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon and all Galilee of the gentiles^[a] had gathered together against them “to annihilate us.”^(A)

²³ Then he took the Jews^[a] of Galilee and Arbatta, with their wives and children, and all they possessed and led them to Judea with great rejoicing.^(A)

³ he encouraged them, saying to them, “You yourselves know what great things my brothers and I and the house of my father have done for the laws and the sanctuary; you know also the wars and the difficulties that my brothers and I have seen.

⁷ By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died, without even burial in the earth.^(A)

⁴ But a man named Simon, of the tribe of Balgea,^[a] who had been made captain of the temple, had a disagreement with the high priest about the administration of the city market.^(A)