1 Maccabees 14:25
“Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thankes shall wee giue to Simon and his sonnes?”
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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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Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thanks shall we give to Simon and his sons?
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