2 Maccabees 4:17

17 To be ungodly in the face of the divine laws isn't a light matter, as the following events would reveal.

2 Maccabees 4:17 In-Context

15 They ignored their ancestral honors and sought after Greek status symbols instead.

16 For this reason a dangerous situation engulfed them. Those same people to whom they were devoted and whose way of life they wished to imitate became their enemies and inflicted punishment on them.

17 To be ungodly in the face of the divine laws isn't a light matter, as the following events would reveal.

18 Once when the king was present at the athletic games they held every five years in Tyre,

19 the evil Jason sent residents of Jerusalem who were now citizens of Antioch as his envoys, carrying three hundred silver drachmen for the sacrifice to Hercules. Because it was inappropriate, the envoys didn't think it was right to use these funds for sacrifice. Instead, they applied the expense to something else.