ent, but to be reserved for other charges.

2 Mac 4:20
This money then, in regard of the sender, was appointed to
Hercules' sacrifice; but because of the bearers thereof, it was
employed to the making of gallies.

2 Mac 4:21
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt
for the coronation of king Ptolemeus Philometor, Antiochus,
understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs,
provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and
from thence to Jerusalem:

2 Mac 4:22
Where he was honourably received of Jason, and of the city,
and was brought in with torch alight, and with great shoutings:
and so afterward went with his host unto Phenice.

2 Mac 4:23
Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid
Simon's brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him
in mind of certain necessary matters.

2 Mac 4:24
But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had
magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the
priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred
talents of silver.

2 Mac 4:25
So he came with the king's mandate, bringing nothing worthy
the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and
the rage of a savage beast.

2 Mac 4:26
Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being
undermined by another, was compelled to flee into the country of
the Ammonites.

2 Mac 4:27
So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that
he had promised unto the king, he took no good order for it,
albeit Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it:

2 Mac 4:28
For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs.
Wherefore they were both called before the king.

2 Mac 4:29
Now Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his stead in the
priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was governor of the
Cyprians.

2 Mac 4:30
While those things were in doing, they of Tarsus and Mallos
made insurrection, because they were given to the king's
concubine, called Antiochus.

2 Mac 4:31
Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving
Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.

2 Mac 4:32
Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time,
stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some
of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyrus and the
cities round about.

2 Mac 4:33
Which when Onias knew of a surety, he reproved him, and
withdrew himself into a sanctuary at