1 Maccabees 14:25

1 Maccabees 14:25 Context

²³And it pleased the people to entertaine the men honourably, and to put the copy of their embassage in publike records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might haue a memoriall therof: furthermore we haue written a copy thereof vnto Simon the hie Priest. ²⁴After this, Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of golde of a thousand pound weight, to confirme the league with them. ²⁵Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thankes shall wee giue to Simon and his sonnes? ²⁶For hee and his brethren, and the house of his father, haue established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their libertie. ²⁷So then they wrote [it] in tables of brasse, which they set vpon pillars in mount Sion, and this is the copie of the writing. The eighteenth day of the moneth Elul, in the hundred threescore and twelft yeere, being the third yeere of Simon the hie priest,

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