²⁴ But he, when presented to the king, extolled him with an air of authority and secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver.^(A)

²⁶ So Jason, who after supplanting his own brother was supplanted by another man, was driven as a fugitive into the land of Ammon.^(A)

Antiochus Epiphanes and Renegade Jews

¹⁰ From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.^(A)

⁶ But Jason kept relentlessly slaughtering his compatriots, not realizing that success at the cost of one’s kindred is the greatest misfortune but imagining that he was setting up trophies of victory over enemies and not over compatriots.^(A)

³ and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.^(A)

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)

¹⁶ who removed Onias from the priesthood and appointed Onias’s^[a] brother Jason as high priest.^(A)