2 Maccabees 3:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ even to the extent that Seleucus,^[a] the king of Asia, defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses required for sacrificial services. ⁴ However, a man named Simon, of the priestly line of Bilgah, who had been appointed administrator of the temple, became involved in a dispute with the high priest about the regulation of the city market. ⁵ When he realized that he could not get the better of Onias, he went to Apollonius of Tarsus, who at that time was the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia,