Good News Translation
Menelaus continued to be High Priest, but he never paid any of the money he had promised the king.

New Revised Standard Version
Although Menelaus continued to hold the office, he did not pay regularly any of the money promised to the king.

Contemporary English Version
Menelaus continued as high priest, though he never paid any of the money he had promised Antiochus.

New American Bible
But Menelaus, who obtained the office, paid nothing of the money he had promised to the king,

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it.

So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it.

2 Maccabees 4:25
So having received the king's mandate, he returned, bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood: but having the mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

2 Maccabees 4:26
Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being himself undermined, was driven out a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

2 Maccabees 4:28
For to him appertained the gathering of the taxes: wherefore they were both called before the king.

2 Maccabees 4:29
And Menelaus was removed from the priesthood, Lysimachus, his brother, succeeding: and Sostratus alas made governor of the Cyprians.