15 After King Seleucus died, his son Antiochus Epiphanes came to power. He was a proud and horrible man.
16 Antiochus removed Onias from the office of high priest and installed Onias’ brother Jason in his place.
17 Jason had agreed to pay the king 208,620 pounds of silver every year if he were made high priest.
18 So Antiochus appointed Jason to the office of high priest and made him the ruler of the nation.
19 Jason changed the nation’s culture and the government so that they completely contradicted the Law.
20 He constructed a Greek school and athletic complex in the heart of the city and abandoned the care of the temple.
21 God’s sense of justice was provoked by these things, so God caused Antiochus himself to start a war against the nation.