So the temple in Jerusalem was selling all kinds of services like the churches of today which are usually rites or rituals of some kind like baptism or paying money to get a name mentioned in a mass. The priests took their money and stored it in the vault where they said their god lived and would kill anyone who stepped inside in the most heinous way imaginable. Other cultures also had stores of all kinds of material things just like the temple of the jews in their own temples as well like in the Exodus when Moses "steals" the temple granary to feed the hebrew slaves where then they were able to make more mud and straw bricks for building.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
>12 Then Jesus went into the temple [d]of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
>13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
>14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
>15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were [e]indignant
>16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?”
>17 Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+21&version=NKJV
In Scripture
>The event is described in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40). According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the Infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days (inclusive) after his birth to complete Mary's ritual purification after childbirth, and to perform the redemption of the firstborn son, in obedience to the Torah (Leviticus 12, Exodus 13:12–15, etc.). Luke explicitly says that Joseph and Mary take the option provided for poor people (those who could not afford a lamb; Leviticus 12:8), sacrificing "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." Leviticus 12:1–4 indicates that this event should take place forty days after birth for a male child, hence the Presentation is celebrated forty days after Christmas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_of_Jesus_at_the_Temple
In Apocrypha, 1 Maccabees (Hasmoneans) and 1 Bel and the Dragon expose a couple of things we are not supposed to know
1 Maccabees
Persecution of the Jews
>20 After subduing Egypt, Antiochus returned in the one hundred forty-third year.[c] He went up against Israel and came to Jerusalem with a strong force.
>21 He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar, the lampstand for the light, and all its utensils.
>22 He took also the table for the bread of the Presence, the cups for drink offerings, the bowls, the golden censers, the curtain, the crowns, and the gold decoration on the front of the temple; he stripped it all off.
>23 He took the silver and the gold, and the costly vessels; he took also the hidden treasures that he found.
>24 Taking them all, he went into his own land.
1 Bel and the Dragon
Daniel and the Priests of Bel
>read the small 1 page here https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Bel%20and%20the%20Dragon+1&version=NRSV
The king thought the God Bel was eating and drinking everything at night when the temple doors were closed until the jew Daniel showed him how it's done.
>"Then the king was enraged, and he arrested the priests and their wives and children. They showed him the secret doors through which they used to enter to consume what was on the table. Therefore the king put them to death, and gave Bel over to Daniel, who destroyed it and its temple.