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He settled Jews in it, and fortified it for the safety of the country and of the city, and built the walls of Jerusalem higher. (1 Maccabees 14, 37)
For he had heard that the Jews were addressed by the Romans as friends and allies and brethren, and that the Romans had received the envoys of Simon with honor. (1 Maccabees 14, 40)
"And the Jews and their priests decided that Simon should be their leader and high priest for ever, until a trustworthy prophet should arise, (1 Maccabees 14, 41)
So Simon accepted and agreed to be high priest, to be commander and ethnarch of the Jews and priests, and to be protector of them all. (1 Maccabees 14, 47)
Antiochus, the son of Demetrius the king, sent a letter from the islands of the sea to Simon, the priest and ethnarch of the Jews, and to all the nation; (1 Maccabees 15, 1)
its contents were as follows: "King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and ethnarch and to the nation of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 15, 2)
The envoys of the Jews have come to us as our friends and allies to renew our ancient friendship and alliance. They had been sent by Simon the high priest and by the people of the Jews, (1 Maccabees 15, 17)
In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred and sixty-ninth year, we Jews wrote to you, in the critical distress which came upon us in those years after Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom (2 Maccabees 1, 7)
Those in Jerusalem and those in Judea and the senate and Judas, To Aristobulus, who is of the family of the anointed priests, teacher of Ptolemy the king, and to the Jews in Egypt, Greeting, and good health. (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
And the high priest, fearing that the king might get the notion that some foul play had been perpetrated by the Jews with regard to Heliodorus, offered sacrifice for the man's recovery. (2 Maccabees 3, 32)
He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans; and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
For this reason not only Jews, but many also of other nations, were grieved and displeased at the unjust murder of the man. (2 Maccabees 4, 35)