1 Maccabees 14:47
“Then Simon accepted hereof, and was well pleased to be high Priest, and captaine, and gouernour of the Iewes, & priests, & to defend them all.”
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1 Maccabees 14:47 Context
45And whosoeuer should do otherwise, or breake any of these things, he should be punished. 46Thus it liked all þe people to deale with Simon, & to do as hath bene said. 47Then Simon accepted hereof, and was well pleased to be high Priest, and captaine, and gouernour of the Iewes, & priests, & to defend them all. 48So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brasse, and that they should be set vp within the compasse of the Sanctuary in a conspicuous place. 49Also þt the copies therof should be laid vp in the treasurie, to the ende that Simon & his sonnes might haue them.
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Then Simon accepted hereof, and was well pleased to be high priest, and captain and governor of the Jews and priests, and to defend them all.
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