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• here was Jonathan’s brother Simon taking his place, and offering battle. Envoys were sent out to make his excuses: (1 Maccabees 13, 14)

• Hold we the person of thy brother Jonathan, it is because he is in default to the royal treasury over his dealings with it. (1 Maccabees 13, 15)

• There lay the bones of Simon’s brother Jonathan, till he sent to fetch them, and gave them burial at Modin, the city of his fathers. (1 Maccabees 13, 25)

• When they learned that his brother Simon had been made high priest instead, master now of the land and all its cities, (1 Maccabees 14, 17)

• I am an old man now, and it is yours to do what I and brother of mine did; march out, fight in our people’s cause, and heaven’s aid be with you! (1 Maccabees 16, 3)

• John went in pursuit, for all his brother Judas had been wounded in the battle, and chased them as far as the walls of Cedron … which he had fortified.✻ (1 Maccabees 16, 9)

• But king Seleucus was done with life now, and the throne passed to Antiochus, called the Illustrious. And here was a brother Onias had, called Jason, that coveted the office of high priest. (2 Maccabees 4, 7)

• Three years later, Jason would send to the king certain moneys, together with a report on affairs of moment; and for this errand he chose Menelaus, brother to that Simon we have before mentioned. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)

• Thus was Jason supplanted, that had supplanted his own brother, and was driven to take refuge in the Ammonite country; (2 Maccabees 4, 26)

• Menelaus leaving his high priesthood to his own brother, Lysimachus, and for Sostratus … he became governor of Cyprus.✻ (2 Maccabees 4, 29)

• His body was brought home again; Philip, his foster-brother, came back with it, and then took refuge in Egypt with Ptolemy Philometor, so little he trusted the young prince Antiochus. (2 Maccabees 9, 29)

• For two whole days they ransacked the fort, and at last came upon Timotheus✻ in his hiding-place; so they made an end of him, his brother Chaereas and Apollophanes perishing with him. (2 Maccabees 10, 37)