2 Maccabees 4:30-32
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Murder of Onias
30 While such was the state of affairs, it happened that the people of Tarsus and of Mallus revolted because their cities had been given as a present to Anti′ochis, the king’s concubine. 31 So the king went hastily to settle the trouble, leaving Androni′cus, a man of high rank, to act as his deputy. 32 But Menela′us, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Androni′cus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities.
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