4 Maccabees 4:13-15

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¹³ Moved by these words, although otherwise cautious lest King Seleucus suppose that Apollonius had been overcome by human treachery and not by divine justice, the high priest Onias prayed for him. 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^(A)