2 Maccabees 3:11-13

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of, belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity: and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:

¹² But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

¹³ But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said that by all means the money must be carried to the king.