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We have recorded their declarations in the minutes of our public assemblies, as follows, "Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew their friendship with us. (1 Maccabees 14, 22)
And it was the people's pleasure to receive these personages with honour and to deposit a copy of their statements in the public archives, so that the people of Sparta might preserve a record of them. A copy was also made for Simon the high priest." ' (1 Maccabees 14, 23)
When these events were reported to our people, they said, 'What mark of appreciation shall we give to Simon and his sons? (1 Maccabees 14, 25)
He stood firm, he and his brothers and his father's house: he fought off the enemies of Israel and secured its freedom.' So they recorded an inscription on bronze tablets and set it up on pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
'When there was almost incessant fighting in the country Simon, son of Mattathias, a priest of the line of Joarib, and his brothers courted danger and withstood their nation's enemies to safeguard the integrity of their sanctuary and of the Law, and so brought their nation great glory; (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
'For when, Jonathan having rallied his nation and become its high priest and having then been gathered to his ancestors, (1 Maccabees 14, 30)
the enemy planned to invade the country, intending to devastate their territory and to lay hands on their sanctuary, (1 Maccabees 14, 31)
Simon next came forward to fight for his nation: spending much of his personal wealth on arming his nation's fighting men and on providing their pay; (1 Maccabees 14, 32)
fortifying the towns of Judaea, as well as Beth-Zur on the Judaean frontier where the enemy arsenal had formerly been, and stationing in it a garrison of Jewish soldiers; (1 Maccabees 14, 33)
fortifying Joppa on the coast, and Gezer on the borders of Azotus, a place formerly inhabited by the enemy, founding a Jewish colony there, and providing the settlers with everything they needed to set them on their feet; (1 Maccabees 14, 34)
'In consequence of which, the people, aware of Simon's loyalty and of the glory which he was determined to win for his nation, have made him their ethnarch and high priest, for all his services and for the integrity and loyalty which he has shown towards his nation, and for having by every means sought to enhance his people's power; (1 Maccabees 14, 35)
'It has fallen to him in his time to expel the foreigners from his country, including those in the City of David in Jerusalem, who had converted it into a citadel for their own use, from which they would sally out to defile the surroundings of the sanctuary and to violate its sacred character; (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
