4 Maccabees 4:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews

¹⁵ When King Seleucus died, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeded to the throne, an arrogant and terrible man, ¹⁶ who removed Onias from the priesthood and appointed Onias’s^[a] brother Jason as high priest. ¹⁷ Jason^[b] agreed that if the office were conferred on him he would pay the king three thousand six hundred and sixty talents annually.