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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MACCABEES:
CONTAINING A RECORD OF EVENTS FROM THE TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES INTO GREEK UNDER PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, (B.C. 277,) TO THE DEATH OF HEROD’s TWO SONS, IN THE FIFTH OR SIXTH YEAR BEFORE CHRIST.
CHAPTER XIXa
B.C. 144
The history of Simeon the son of Mattathias.
Then Simeon the son of Mattathias succeeded to the government; and he gathered together all those who remained of the army of Judas: and his affairs prospered, and he subdued all those who had exercised hostility against the Jews after the death of his brother Judas; and he behaved well towards his people, and the matters of his country were rightly ordered.
Wherefore Antiochusb attacked him, and Demetrius the son of Seleucus; and sent a great army against him: to meet which, Simeon and his two sons went out; and he divided his army into two parts, one of which he kept with himself, and gave the other to his sons. Then he and they which were with him went to the army; and he sent his two sons and their followers by another way and appointed with them to attack the army at a given time. After this, he met the army of Antiochus, and attacked it, and began to prevail against it: and his two sons came when the battle had now begun, and the fight grew fierce, and they came round the rear of the army. And Antiochus’ army, being placed between two armies, was cut to pieces, nor did a single man of them escape nor did Antiochus return any more to fight with Simeon. And peace and quietness continued among the Jews all the days of Simeon. And the time of his government was two years”- Then 9 Ptolemy his son-in-law rushed on him, and slew him, at a certain feastd where he was present. And he seized his wife and his two sons. And Simeon’s son, whose name was Hyrcanus, was set in his father’s place.
[Here ends the history as given in the two books usually attached to our Bibles.]
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