2 Maccabees 3:12
Source: Septuagint
12and that it was altogether impossible that such wrongs should be done unto them, that had committed it to the holiness of the place, and to the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world.
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10Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:
11and that some of it belonged to Hyrcanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:
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13But Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandment given him, said, That in anywise it must be brought into the king’s treasury.
14So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.