2 Maccabees 3:3-5

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³ even to the extent that King Seleucus of Asia defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses connected with the service of the sacrifices.^(A)

⁴ But a man named Simon, of the tribe of Balgea,^[a] who had been made captain of the temple, had a disagreement with the high priest about the administration of the city market.^{(B) 5} Since he could not prevail over Onias, he went to Apollonius of Tarsus,^[b] who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia,