2 Maccabees 3:4-6

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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) 5} Since he could not prevail over Onias, he went to Apollonius of Tarsus,^[b] who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, ⁶ and reported to him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the amount of the funds could not be reckoned, and that they did not belong to the account of the sacrifices but that it was possible for them to fall under the control of the king.^(B)