2 Maccabees 3:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ so that even Seleu′cus, the king of Asia, defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses connected with the service of the sacrifices. ⁴ But a man named Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin, who had been made captain of the temple, had a disagreement with the high priest about the administration of the city market; ⁵ and when he could not prevail over Oni′as he went to Apollo′nius of Tarsus,^[a] who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenic′ia.