2 Maccabees 4:7-9
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Jason’s Reforms
7 When Seleucus died and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high-priesthood by corruption, 8 promising the king at an interview[a] three hundred and sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents. 9 In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred and fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it, and to enrol the people of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.
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