8
He offered the king, in private communication, three hundred sixty talents of silver, and an additional eighty talents from another source of revenue.
6
He recognized that without royal attention pubic affairs would not return to a peaceful state, and Simon would not cease from his madness.
7
After Seleucus died and Antiochus (who was called Epiphanes) received the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias gained the high priesthood by corruption.
8
He offered the king, in private communication, three hundred sixty talents of silver, and an additional eighty talents from another source of revenue.
9
He also promised to pay another one hundred fifty talents if he were permitted to set up, under his own authority, a gymnasium and a place for training the young people, and to enroll those living in Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.
10
When the king had granted this and Jason had taken possession of his office, he immediately made his fellow citizens change to the Greek way of life.