2 Maccabees 3:2-4

Good News Translation

² The kings of Syria and Egypt honored the Temple and presented it with expensive gifts, ³ and King Seleucus,^[a] ruler of all Asia, even used to pay the costs of the Temple sacrifices from the revenues he collected.

⁴ But a man by the name of Simon, of the tribe of Bilgah,^[b] the chief administrative official of the Temple, lost an argument he had with Onias over the regulations governing the city market.