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• After this had happened, Jonathan and his brother Simon were told that the Yambrites were celebrating a solemn wedding and were escorting the bride, a daughter of one of the magnates, from Nadabath with great pomp. (1 Maccabees 9, 37)

• Both remembered the murder of their brother John, so they went up and hid under cover of the mountain. (1 Maccabees 9, 38)

• Having avenged the death of their brother, the Israelites went back to the marshes of the Jordan. Let us return to Bacchides. (1 Maccabees 9, 42)

• Then Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city and went out into the countryside with a handful of men. (1 Maccabees 9, 65)

• "King Alexander to our brother Jonathan, peace. (1 Maccabees 10, 18)

• I give up from this day and henceforth the third of the harvest and half of the fruit of the trees which I have the right to exact from the region of Judea and the three districts annexed to it from Samaria and Galilee. (1 Maccabees 10, 30)

• When Jonathan heard Apollonius' message, he was greatly aroused. So he left Jerusalem with ten thousand picked men, and his brother Simon came to his help. (1 Maccabees 10, 74)

• He also appointed Jonathan's brother Simon as general from the Ladder of Tyre to the frontiers of Egypt. (1 Maccabees 11, 59)

• Leaving his brother Simon in Judea, he went out to meet them in battle. (1 Maccabees 11, 64)

• and they exclaimed in a loud voice: "Be our leader in place of Judas and your brother Jonathan. (1 Maccabees 13, 8)

• But when Trypho learned that Simon had taken command in place of his brother Jonathan and was prepared to fight him, he sent some envoys to him with this message: (1 Maccabees 13, 14)

• "We have in our custody your brother Jonathan because of the money he owes to the royal treasury for the offices he held. (1 Maccabees 13, 15)