1 Maccabees 14:26
“For 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.”
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1 Maccabees 14:26 Context
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, 28At Saramel in the great congregation of the priests and people, and rulers of the nation, & elders of the country, were these things notified vnto vs.
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For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.
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