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So Athenobius, the king's Friend, came to Jerusalem and on seeing the splendor of Simon's court, the gold and silver plate on the sideboard, and the rest of his rich display, he was amazed. When he gave him the king's message, (1 Maccabees 15, 32)
Simon said to him in reply: "We have not seized any foreign land; what we took is not the property of others, but our ancestral heritage which for a time had been unjustly held by our enemies. (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
Athenobius made no reply, but returned to the king in anger. When he told him of Simon's words, of his splendor, and of all he had seen, the king fell into a violent rage. (1 Maccabees 15, 36)
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 he became ambitious and sought to get control of the country. So he made treacherous plans to do away with Simon and his sons. (1 Maccabees 16, 13)
As Simon was inspecting the cities of the country and providing for their needs, he and his sons Mattathias and Judas went down to Jericho in the year one hundred and seventy-seven, in the eleventh month (that is, the month Shebat). (1 Maccabees 16, 14)
Then, when Simon and his sons had drunk freely, Ptolemy and his men sprang up, weapons in hand, rushed upon Simon in the banquet hall, and killed him, his two sons, and some of his servants. (1 Maccabees 16, 16)
But a certain Simon, of the priestly course of Bilgah, who had been appointed superintendent of the temple, had a quarrel with the high priest about the supervision of the city market. (2 Maccabees 3, 4)
and a part was the property of Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man who occupied a very high position. Contrary to the calumnies of the impious Simon, the total amounted to four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 11)
The Simon mentioned above as the informer about the funds against his own country, made false accusation that it was Onias who threatened Heliodorus and instigated the whole miserable affair. (2 Maccabees 4, 1)
When Simon's hostility reached such a point that murders were being committed by one of his henchmen, (2 Maccabees 4, 3)