2 Maccabees 3:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ But a man by the name of Simon, of the tribe of Bilgah,^[a] 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 ⁶ and said that there was so much money in the Temple treasury that it could not be counted, and since the money was not needed for sacrifices, it might as well be placed under the king's control.