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And they that were in the engine leaped into the city; whereupon there was a great uproar in
the city:
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Insomuch as the people of the city rent their clothes, and climbed upon the walls with their
wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.
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And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickedness, but according to thy mercy.
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So Simon was appeased toward them, and fought no more against them, but put them out of
the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with songs and
thanksgiving.
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Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men there as would keep the law, and
made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwellingplace for himself.
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They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth,
nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals,
and a great number of them perished through famine.
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Then cried they to Simon, beseeching him to be at one with them: which thing he granted
them; and when he had put them out from thence, he cleansed the tower from pollutions:
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And entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month in the hundred seventy
and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and
with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.
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He ordained also that that day should be kept every year with gladness. Moreover the hill of
the temple that was by the tower he made stronger than it was, and there he dwelt himself with his
company.
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And when Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man, he made him captain of all the
hosts; and he dwelt in Gazera.
CHAPTER MACCABEES 14
Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and
went into Media to get him help to fight against Tryphone.
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But when Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was entered within his
borders, he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
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Who went and smote the host of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, by
whom he was put in ward.
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As for the land of Judea, that was quiet all the days of Simon; for he sought the good of his
nation in such wise, as that evermore his authority and honour pleased them well.
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And as he was honourable in all his acts, so in this, that he took Joppa for an haven, and made
an entrance to the isles of the sea,
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And enlarged the bounds of his nation, and recovered the country,
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