4 Maccabees 4:13-15

Revised Standard Version

¹³ Moved by these words, Oni′as the high priest, although otherwise he had scruples about doing so, prayed for him lest King Seleu′cus suppose that Apollo′nius had been overcome by human treachery and not by divine justice. ¹⁴ So Apollo′nius, having been preserved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.

Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews

¹⁵ When King Seleu′cus died, his son Anti′ochus Epiph′anes succeeded to the throne, an arrogant and terrible man,