2 Maccabees 4:4-6

Wycliffe Bible

⁴ Onias beheld the peril of strife [or Onias, beholding the peril of strife], and that Apollonius was mad, as duke of Celosyria and Phenice (or as the governor of Greater Syria and Phoenicia), for to increase the malice of Simon.

⁵ And Onias gave himself to the king; not as (an) accuser of (the) citizens, but beholding with himself the common profit of all the multitude.

⁶ For he saw, that it was impossible that peace were given to things without the king’s purveyance, and that Simon might not cease of (or from) his folly.