2 Maccabees 3:9

9 And when he had come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest of the city, he told him what intelligence was given concerning the money, and declared why he came, and asked if these things were indeed so.

2 Maccabees 3:9 In-Context

7 Now when Apollonius came to the king and had informed him of the money whereof he had been told, the king chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandment to bring him the aforesaid money.
8 So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey, under the guise of visiting the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but indeed to fulfill the king's purpose.
9 And when he had come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received by the high priest of the city, he told him what intelligence was given concerning the money, and declared why he came, and asked if these things were indeed so.
10 Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children;
11 and that some of it belonged to Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and was not as that wicked Simon had misinformed, the sum of which in all was four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold;
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