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2 Maccabees 4:7–8

Jason’s Reforms

(Cp 1 Macc 1:10–19)

When Seleucus died and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high priesthood by corruption, promising the king at an interviewc three hundred sixty talents of silver, and from another source of revenue eighty talents.

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