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He confirmed Jonathan's office as high priest with all the privileges he already had. And he numbered him among his first Friends. (1 Maccabees 11, 27)
Because of their fidelity to us, we have decided to grant favors to the Jewish nation, who are our friends and who fulfill their obligations to us. We wish to reward their fidelity. (1 Maccabees 11, 33)
Then the young Antiochus sent Jonathan this letter: "I confirm your office as High Priest and make you governor of four districts, and I include you among the Friends of the King." (1 Maccabees 11, 57)
However, we did not want to be a burden to you or to the rest of our allies and friends during these wars, (1 Maccabees 12, 14)
So he received Jonathan with honor, presented him to all his Friends, gave him gifts, and instructed his Friends and his troops to obey Jonathan as they obeyed him. (1 Maccabees 12, 43)
made him one of his Friends and bestowed high honors on him, (1 Maccabees 14, 39)
for he had heard that the Romans had considered the Jews their friends, allies and brothers, and had received Simon's envoy with honor. (1 Maccabees 14, 40)
The Jewish people sent by the High Priest Simon and by the Jewish people have come to us as our friends and allies to renew our friendship and alliance of old. (1 Maccabees 15, 17)
He sent Athenobius, one of his Friends, to him in order to meet him and say to him: "You have occupied Joppa, Gazara and the Citadel of Judea which are cities of my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 15, 28)
Antiochus and his friends came to that place under the pretext of marrying the goddess, but in reality they wanted to seize its great treasures as a dowry. (2 Maccabees 1, 14)
Ptolemy at once appointed Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the king's first Friends, and sent him at the head of some twenty thousand men coming from all nations, with the order to wipe out all the Jews. At his side, he put Gorgias, a general of much experience in matters of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
But the Friends of King Eupator made use of this to accuse him before the king. They continually called him a traitor, reminding him that he had once abandoned the land of Cyprus, which had been entrusted to him by Philometor, in order to go over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Since he could not discharge his high office with dignity, he was driven to despair and committed suicide by poisoning himself. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)