2 Maccabees 3:11-13

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¹¹ and also some money of Hyrcanus son of Tobias, a man of very prominent position, and that it totaled in all four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. To such an extent the impious Simon had misrepresented the facts.^{(A) 12} And he said^[a] that it was utterly impossible that wrong should be done to those people who had trusted in the holiness of the place and in the sanctity and inviolability of the temple that is honored throughout the whole world.^(B)

Heliodorus Plans to Rob the Temple

¹³ But Heliodorus,^[b] because of the orders he had from the king, said that this money must in any case be confiscated for the king’s treasury.^(C)