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4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees 4
4 Maccabees 4:16
4 Maccabees 4
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who removed Onias from the priesthood and appointed Onias's brother Jason as high priest.
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So Apollonius, having been saved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.
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When King Seleucus died, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeded to the throne, an arrogant and terrible man,
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who removed Onias from the priesthood and appointed Onias's brother Jason as high priest.
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Jason agreed that if the office were conferred on him he would pay the king three thousand six hundred sixty talents annually.
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So the king appointed him high priest and ruler of the nation.
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[a].
Gk [his]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.