2 Maccabees 4:7

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,

2 Maccabees 4:7 In-Context

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.

9 Beside this, he promised to assign a hundred and fifty more if he might have license to set up a place for exercise and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to designate them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians;