2 Maccabees 3:11
New Revised Standard Version
and also some money of Hyrcanus son of Tobias, a man of very prominent position, and that it totaled in all four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. To such an extent the impious Simon had misrepresented the facts.

Contemporary English Version
and some of it belongs to Hyrcanus, a very important man. At the most, you will find only 400,000 silver coins and 200,000 pieces of gold. That devil Simon lied to you.

New American Bible
and some was the property of Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man who occupied a very high position. Contrary to the misrepresentations of the impious Simon, the total amounted only to four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold.

2 Maccabees 3:9
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.

2 Maccabees 3:10
Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless:

2 Maccabees 3:12
But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

2 Maccabees 3:13
But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.

Context
2 Maccabees 3
10Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless: 11And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of belonged to Hircanus, son of Tobias, a man of great dignity; and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold. 12But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 3:9
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.

2 Maccabees 3:10
Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless:

2 Maccabees 3:12
But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

2 Maccabees 3:13
But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said, that by all means the money must be carried to the king.



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2 Maccabees 3:10
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