4 Maccabees 4:15-17

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Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews

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