2 Maccabees 4:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ When the quinquennial games were being held at Tyre in the presence of the king, ¹⁹ the villainous Jason sent envoys chosen from among the Antiochian citizens from Jerusalem to bring there three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. However, those who were designated to carry the money considered it improper for this money to be used as a sacrifice, and they decided to expend it for some other purpose. ²⁰ And so, the money intended by the sender to be used for the sacrifice to Hercules was in fact applied, at the suggestion of those who brought it, to the construction of triremes.^[a]