2 Maccabees 3:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Arrival of Heliodorus in Jerusalem

3 While the holy city was inhabited in unbroken peace and the laws were strictly observed because of the piety of the high priest Onias and his hatred of wickedness, ² it came about that the kings themselves honoured the place and glorified the temple with the finest presents,