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He and his brothers and his father's house have stood firm and repulsed Israel's enemies. They have thus preserved its liberty." So they made an inscription on bronze tablets, which they affixed to pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
John then went up from Gazara and told his father Simon what Cendebeus was doing. (1 Maccabees 16, 1)
Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: "I and my brothers and my father's house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth until today, and many times we succeeded in saving Israel. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
But someone ran ahead and brought word to John at Gazara that his father and his brothers had perished, and that Ptolemy had sent men to kill him also. (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
these things are recorded in the chronicle of his pontificate, from the time that he succeeded his father as high priest. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
He set aside the royal concessions granted to the Jews through the mediation of John, father of Eupolemus (that Eupolemus who would later go on an embassy to the Romans to establish a treaty of friendship with them); he abrogated the lawful institutions and introduced customs contrary to the law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
Nevertheless, I know that my father, whenever he went on campaigns in the hinterland, would name his successor, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
Now that our father has taken his place among the gods, we wish the subjects of our kingdom to be undisturbed in conducting their own affairs. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
We understand that the Jews do not agree with our father's policy concerning Greek customs but prefer their own way of life. They are petitioning us to let them retain their own customs. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
The king was advancing, his mind full of savage plans for inflicting on the Jews worse things than those they suffered in his father's time. (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a patriot. A man highly regarded, he was called a father of the Jews because of his love for them. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching; (Proverbs 1, 8)
