1 did not send him the money and the sons that Jonathan perished.”
19So he sent the sons and the hundred talents, but Trypho broke his word and did not release Jonathan.
20After this Trypho came to invade the country and destroy it, and he circled around by the way to Adora. But Simon and his army kept marching along opposite him to every place he went.
21 he devised an elaborate setting, erecting about them great columns, and on the columns he put suits of armor for a permanent memorial, and beside the suits of armor he carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea.
30 let them be enrolled, and let there be peace between us.”
41In the one hundred seventieth year the yoke of the nations was removed from Israel,
42 encamped against Gazara and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, brought it up to the city, and battered and captured one tower.
44The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city.
45 entered it with praise and palm branches, and with harps and cymbals and stringed instruments, and with hymns and songs, because a great enemy had been crushed and removed from Israel.
52 decreed that every year they should celebrate this day with rejoicing. He strengthened the fortifications of the temple hill alongside the citadel, and he and his men lived there.
531 Macc 16.1, 2, 23Simon saw that his son John had reached manhood, so he made him commander of all the forces, and he lived at Gazara.
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