2 Maccabees 14:3

3 Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest and had defiled himself willfully in the times of their mingling with the Gentiles, seeing that by no means could he save himself nor have any more access to the holy altar,

2 Maccabees 14:3 In-Context

1 After three years Judas was informed that Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having entered by the haven of Tripolis with a great power and navy,

2 had taken the country and killed Antiochus and Lysias his protector.

3 Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest and had defiled himself willfully in the times of their mingling with the Gentiles, seeing that by no means could he save himself nor have any more access to the holy altar,

4 came to King Demetrius in the hundred and one and fiftieth year, presenting unto him a crown of gold and a palm, and also some of the boughs which were used solemnly in the temple; and so that day he held his peace.

5 However, having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprise, and being called into counsel by Demetrius and asked how the Jews stood affected and what they intended, Alcimus answered thereto: