2 Maccabees 4:30-32

Good News Translation

The Murder of Onias

³⁰ Meanwhile, there was a revolt in the Cilician cities of Tarsus and Mallus, because the king had given those cities to Antiochis, his mistress. ³¹ So the king left Andronicus, one of his high officials, in command, while he hurried off to Cilicia to restore order. ³² Menelaus took advantage of this opportunity and presented Andronicus with some of the gold objects he had removed from the Temple in Jerusalem. He had already sold some of them to the city of Tyre and to other nearby cities.