4 Maccabees 4:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³ Moved by these words, the high priest Onias, although otherwise he had scruples about doing so, prayed for him so that King Seleucus would not suppose that Apollonius had been overcome by human treachery and not by divine justice. ¹⁴ So Apollonius,^[a] having been saved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.

Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews

¹⁵ When King Seleucus died, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeded to the throne, an arrogant and terrible man,