1 went and defeated the army of Demetrius and seized him and took him to Arsaces, who put him under guard.
Eulogy of Simon4 had rest all the days of Simon.
He sought the good of his nation;
his rule was pleasing to them,
as was the honor shown him all his days.
5 Official Honors for Simon
25 nation, became their high priest, and was gathered to his people.
31 whatever was necessary for their restoration.
35 and the glory that he had resolved to win for his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest because he had done all these things and because of the justice and loyalty that he had maintained toward his nation. He sought in every way to exalt his people.
36 country, as were also those in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary, doing great damage to its purity.
37 had received the envoys of Simon with honor.
41 appoint officials over its tasks and over the country and the weapons and the strongholds,
43
48vv 18, 27; 1 Macc 8.22And they gave orders to inscribe this decree on bronze tablets, to put them up in a conspicuous place in the precincts of the sanctuary,
49Jn 8.20and to deposit copies of them in the treasury, so that Simon and his sons might have them.
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