2 Maccabees 3:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ So that Seleucus king of Asia allowed out of his revenues all the charges belonging to the ministry of the sacrifices.

⁴ But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, who was appointed overseer of the temple, strove in opposition to the high priest, to bring about some unjust thing in the city.

⁵ And when he could not overcome Onias he went to Apollonius the son of Tharseas, who at that time was governor of Celesyria and Phenicia: