Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 4:16
Source: Septuagint
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16Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest:
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14and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him.
15But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of haughty pride and terrible.
— 4 Maccabees 4:16 —
17who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.
18And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation.