1 For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to an honorable and good man who once held the high priesthood for life, named Onias. After slandering Onias in every way, Simon couldn’t injure him with the people, so he went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 4:1
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2 Maccabees 4:1–2
1 The previously mentioned Simon, who had given information about the money against his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of these evils. (WEB) 2 He dared to call him a conspirator against the state wh… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 3:3–5
3 so that even King Seleucus of Asia bore all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices out of his own revenues. (WEB) 4 But a man named Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, disagreed with the high priest about the ruling… (WEB) 5 … (WEB)
1 Maccabees 16:12–14
12 for he was the high priest’s son-in-law. (WEB) 13 His heart was lifted up, and he planned to make himself master of the country, and he made deceitful plans against Simon and his sons, to do away with them. (WEB) 14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 14:2–4
2 had taken possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias. (WEB) 3 But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, considering that the… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 14:16–18
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 tablet… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 14:28–30
28 in Asaramel, in a great congregation of priests and people and princes of the nation, and of the elders of the country, it was proclaimed to us: (WEB) 29 ‘Since wars often occurred in the country, Simon the son of Mattathias, the son of the sons of Joarib, and his brot… (WEB)
Sirach 50:1–2
1 It was Simon, the son of Onias, the high priest, who in his life repaired the house, and in his days strengthened the temple. (WEB) 2 The foundation was built by him to the height of the double walls, the lofty retaining walls of the temple enclosure. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 4:15–17
15 But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeded to the kingdom—a terrible man of arrogant pride. (WEB) 16 He, having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest, (WEB) 17 who had made a covenant, if he would… (WEB)
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