1 Maccabees 7:5

Verse 5. Alcimus. He occupied the place of Menalaus, and would be high priest, but that office was held by the Machabees. Worthington.—Eupator had slain Menalaus, as being to turbulent. Onias IV. ought to have been recognized; ( Calmet.) but he fled into Egypt, and there built a temple. Lysias advised the king to select one from a family of less power. Alcimus was such, though of the posterity of Aaron. verse 14. Jos. Ant. xii. 5. and xiii. 6. and xx. 8.—He had fallen under Epiphanes, and the Jews would not receive him.