2 Maccabees 4:27-29

Good News Translation

²⁷ Menelaus continued to be High Priest, but he never paid any of the money he had promised the king. ²⁸ However, Sostratus, the captain of the fort in Jerusalem, kept demanding the money, since it was his responsibility to collect it. So finally, the two men were summoned to appear before the king concerning the matter. ²⁹ Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus as acting High Priest, while Sostratus left the fort under the command of Crates, the commander of the mercenary troops from Cyprus.