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• In this grave quandary he resolved to invade Persia, there to levy tribute on the provinces and so accumulate substantial funds. (1 Maccabees 3, 31)

• The high priest explained that there were funds set aside for widows and orphans, (2 Maccabees 3, 10)

• But Heliodorus, because of his instructions from the king, peremptorily insisted that the funds must be confiscated for the royal exchequer. (2 Maccabees 3, 13)

• Fixing a day for the purpose, he went in to draw up an inventory of the funds. There was no little consternation throughout the city; (2 Maccabees 3, 14)

• the priests in their sacred vestments prostrated themselves before the altar and prayed to Heaven, to the Author of the law governing deposits, to preserve these funds intact for the depositors. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)

• The Simon mentioned above as the informer against the funds and against his country began slandering Onias, insinuating that the latter had been responsible for the assault on Heliodorus and himself had contrived this misfortune. (2 Maccabees 4, 1)