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HELIODORUS . The chancellor of Seleucus iv. Philopator. At the instigation of Apollonius he was sent by the king to plunder the private treasures kept in the Temple of Jerus.; but was prevented from carrying out his design by an apparition ( Malachi 3:7 Malachi 3:7 ff.). In b.c. 175. Heliodorus murdered Seleucus, and attempted to seize the Syrian crown; but he was driven out by Eumenes of Pergamus and his brother Attalus; and Antiochus Epiphanes, brother of Seleucus, ascended the throne. There is commonly supposed to be a reference to Heliodorus in Daniel 11:20 , but the interpretation of the passage is doubtful. Further, he is frequently reckoned as one of the ten or the three kings of Daniel 7:7 f.