7
But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,
5
He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private:
6
For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.
7
But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,
8
Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:
9
Beside this, he promised to assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.