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And when he came near to Bascama he slew Jonathan, who was buried there.
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Afterward Tryphon returned and went into his own land.
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Then sent Simon, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried them in Modin, the
city of his fathers.
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And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.
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Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it
aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
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Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and
his four brethren.
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And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the
pillars he made all their armour for a perpetual memory, and by the armour ships carved, that they
might be seen of all that sail on the sea.
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This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it standeth yet unto this day.
31
Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus, and slew him.
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And he reigned in his stead, and crowned himself king of Asia, and brought a great calamity
upon the land.
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Then Simon built up the strong holds in Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and
great walls, and gates, and bars, and laid up victuals therein.
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Moreover Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end he should give the land
an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to spoil.
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Unto whom king Demetrius answered and wrote after this manner:
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King Demetrius unto Simon the high priest, and friend of kings, as also unto the elders and
nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting:
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The golden crown, and the scarlet robe, which ye sent unto us, we have received: and we are
ready to make a stedfast peace with you, yea, and to write unto our officers, to confirm the
immunities which we have granted.
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And whatsoever covenants we have made with you shall stand; and the strong holds, which
ye have builded, shall be your own.
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As for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown tax also,
which ye owe us: and if there were any other tribute paid in Jerusalem, it shall no more be paid.
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And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then be enrolled, and let there be
peace betwixt us.
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Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.
42
Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year
of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
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In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine
of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it.
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