2 Maccabees 4:6

6 For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue in peace and Simon leave his folly, unless the king looked thereunto.

2 Maccabees 4:6 In-Context

4 Onias, seeing the danger of this contention and that Apollonius, being the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, raged and increased Simon's malice,

5 he went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both public and private.

6 For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue in peace and Simon leave his folly, unless the king looked thereunto.

7 But after the death of Seleucus when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias labored underhandedly to be high priest,

8 promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and from another revenue eighty talents.