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Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the
posterity of those
priests that had
hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;
Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the
priests to
sprinkle the wood and the things laid
thereupon with the water.
And the
priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was
consuming, I say, both the
priests, and all the rest,
Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering
thereunto, as Neemias did.
So when this matter was known, it was told the king of Persia, that in the place, where the
priests that were led away had
hid the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had
purified the sacrifices
therewith.
We hope also, that the God, that delivered all his people, and gave them all an
heritage, and the kingdom, and the
priesthood, and the sanctuary,
Now when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the
godliness of Onias the high
priest, and his hatred of wickedness,
But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, who was made governor of the temple, fell out with the high priest about disorder in the city.
And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been
courteously received of the high
priest of the city, he told him what intelligence was given of the money, and declared wherefore he came, and asked if these things were so indeed.
Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:
But the
priests,
prostrating themselves before the altar in their
priests’
vestments, called unto heaven upon him that made a law concerning things given to he kept, that they should safely be preserved for such as had committed them to be kept.
Then
whoso had looked the high
priest in the face, it would have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his colour declared the inward
agony of his mind.
Then it would have
pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high
priest being in such an
agony.
So the high
priest,
suspecting lest the king should misconceive that some
treachery had been done to
Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice for the health of the man.
Now as the high
priest was making an
atonement, the same young men in the same clothing appeared and stood beside
Heliodorus, saying, Give Onias the high
priest great
thanks,
insomuch as for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life:
But after the death of Seleucus, when
Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom,
Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high
priest,
Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of
heathenish manners, through the exceeding
profaneness of
Jason, that ungodly
wretch, and no high
priest;
That the
priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar, but
despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices,
hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of
Discus called them forth;
But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had
magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the
priesthood to himself, offering more than
Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
So he came with the king’s
mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high
priesthood, but having the
fury of a cruel
tyrant, and the
rage of a savage beast.
And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:
Now one Alcimus, who had been high
priest, and had
defiled himself
wilfully in the times of their
mingling with the Gentiles, seeing that by no means he could save himself, nor have any more access to the holy altar,
Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors’ honour, I mean the high
priesthood, am now come
hither:
Commanding him to
slay Judas, and to
scatter them that were with him, and to make Alcimus high
priest of the great temple.
But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by
Judas’ policy, came into the great and holy temple, and commanded the
priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the man.
After these words he departed. Then the
priests lifted up their hands toward heaven, and
besought him that was ever a defender of their nation, saying in this manner;
And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high
priest, a
virtuous and a good man,
reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.
So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the tower,