Statement

Menelaus went further: he took gold vessels out of the Temple so as to bribe a Greek official and then sell them to other cities, and had Onias, a former high priest who criticized him, murdered.

Ancient witnesses mentioned by the source2 Macabeus

References

1. p. 73

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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