2 Maccabees 3:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ So Heliodorus forthwith began his journey, under a colour of visiting the cities of Celesyria and Phenicia, but indeed to fulfill the king's purpose.

⁹ And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received in the city by the high priest, he told him what information had been given concerning the money: and declared the cause for which he was come: and asked if these things were so indeed.

¹⁰ Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless.