28
For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.
29
Now Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his stead in the priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was governor of the Cyprians.
30
While those things were in doing, they of Tarsus and Mallos made insurrection, because they were given to the king's concubine, called Antiochus.
31
Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.
32
Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyrus and the cities round about.
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