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For he and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm; they have fought and repulsed Israel's enemies and established its freedom." (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
John went up from Gazara and reported to Simon his father what Cendebeus had done. (1 Maccabees 16, 1)
And Simon called in his two older sons Judas and John, and said to them: "I and my brothers and the house of my father have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
But some one ran ahead and reported to John at Gazara that his father and brothers had perished, and that "he has sent men to kill you also." (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he became high priest after his father. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans; and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
but I observed that my father, on the occasions when he made expeditions into the upper country, appointed his successor, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
Now that our father has gone on to the gods, we desire that the subjects of the kingdom be undisturbed in caring for their own affairs. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
We have heard that the Jews do not consent to our father's change to Greek customs but prefer their own way of living and ask that their own customs be allowed them. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show the Jews things far worse than those that had been done in his father's time. (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a man who loved his fellow citizens and was very well thought of and for his good will was called father of the Jews. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching; (Proverbs 1, 8)
