16 It was heard at Rome that Jonathan was dead, and even in Sparta, and they were exceedingly grieved. (WEB) 17 But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his place, and ruled the country and the cities in it, (WEB) 18 they wrote to him on brass tablets to renew with him the friendship and the alliance which they had confirmed with his brothers Judas and Jonathan. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 14:16–18
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1 Maccabees 9:27–29
27 There was great suffering in Israel, such as was not since the time prophets stopped appearing to them. (WEB) 28 All the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan, (WEB) 29 “Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go out against our… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 2:38–40
38 So they attacked them on the Sabbath, and they died—they, their wives, their children, and their livestock—in number a thousand souls of men. (WEB) 39 When Mattathias and his friends found out about it, they mourned over them exceedingly. (WEB) 40 One said to another, “If we all… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 12:2–4
2 He also sent similar letters to the Spartans, and to other places. (WEB) 3 They went to Rome, entered into the senate house, and said, “Jonathan the high priest and the nation of the Jews have sent us to renew for them the friendship and the alliance, as in former tim… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 13:13–15
13 But Simon encamped at Adida, near the plain. (WEB) 14 Tryphon knew that Simon had risen up in the place of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, so he sent ambassadors to him, saying, (WEB) 15 “It is for money which Jonathan your brother owed to the king’s tre… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 15:23–25
23 to all the countries, to Sampsames, to the Spartans, to Delos, to Myndos, to Sicyon, to Caria, to Samos, to Pamphylia, to Lycia, to Halicarnassus, to Rhodes, to Phaselis, to Cos, to Side, to Aradus, Gortyna, Cnidus, Cyprus, and Cyrene. (WEB) 24 They also wrote this cop… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 5:62–64
62 But they were not of the family of those men by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel. (WEB) 63 The man Judas and his kindred were glorified exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and of all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard of. (WEB) 64 Men gathered together to… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 13:24–26
24 Then Tryphon turned back, and went away into his own land. (WEB) 25 Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him at Modin, the city of his fathers. (WEB) 26 All Israel made great lamentation over him, and mourned for him many days. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 14:29–31
29 ‘Since wars often occurred in the country, Simon the son of Mattathias, the son of the sons of Joarib, and his brothers, put themselves in jeopardy and withstood the enemies of their nation, that their sanctuary and the law might be established, and glorified… (WEB)
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