During his tenure, he is recorded as being involved with an attempt to tax the Temple in Jerusalem in Jewish histories of the period.

The brother of the late king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, was aided by the Pergamese monarch, Eumenes II, and arrived in Antioch.

Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the brother of the late king, had been in exile in Athens; with the help of the monarch of the Kingdom of Pergamon, Eumenes II, he returned to Syria where he was quickly able to convince the Greek aristocracy to support his claim over Heliodorus's.

In the script on this stele, Seleucus informs Heliodorus that he appoints a man named Olympiodoros in charge of the temples of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia.

In December 2021, the "Heliodorus Stele" was among the 180 looted artifacts Steinhardt agreed to surrender to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

[7][8] During the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the episode of Heliodorus being repulsed by angels from the Temple was taken in Roman Catholic apologetics as a symbol of the inviolability of Church property.