3 Maccabees 6:23–24

23 For hearing the outcry and seeing them all prostrate to meet their death, he wept and angrily threatened his friends, saying, 24 Ye usurp the kingly power, surpassing even tyrants in your cruelty; and me myself, who am your benefactor, ye plot to deprive of my dominion and my life, devising secretly things that are unprofitable to the kingdom.