2 Maccabees 3:3-5

Good News Translation

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. ⁵ At this time Apollonius son of Thraseus was the governor of Greater Syria. Simon went to him