24 But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and raise him to high honor if he would turn from the ways of his ancestors, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs. (WEB) 25 But when the young man would in no way listen, the king called to him his mother, and urged her to advise the youth to save himself. (WEB) 26 When he had urged her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:24–26
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