4 Maccabees 4:14-16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁴ So Apollonius,^[a] having been saved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.

Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews

¹⁵ When King Seleucus died, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeded to the throne, an arrogant and terrible man^{(A) 16} who removed Onias from the priesthood and appointed Onias’s^[b] brother Jason as high priest.^(B)