2 Maccabees 3:13

13 But Heliodorus insisted that the money should be taken for the royal treasury, as the king had ordered.

2 Maccabees 3:13 In-Context

12 He added that it was absolutely impossible that anyone should be permitted to take the money of those people who had placed their trust in the sanctity and safety of this world-famous Temple.

13 But Heliodorus insisted that the money should be taken for the royal treasury, as the king had ordered.

14 So he set a day and went into the Temple to supervise the counting of the money. This caused an uproar throughout the entire city.

15 Priests, wearing their priestly robes, threw themselves face downward before the altar and begged God to keep the money safe, since he had given the laws designed to protect the money that people deposited in the Temple.