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1 Maccabees 13:53 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Simon saw that his son John was a man, so he made him leader of all his forces; and he lived in Gazara. "

1 Maccabees 13:53

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51 He entered into it on the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred seventy-first year, with praise and palm branches, with harps, with cymbals, and with stringed instruments, with hymns, and with songs, because a great enemy had been destroyed out of Israel.

52 Simon ordained that they should keep that day every year with gladness. He made the hill of the temple that was by the citadel stronger than before, and he lived there with his men.

53 Simon saw that his son John was a man, so he made him leader of all his forces; and he lived in Gazara.

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1 Maccabees 16:2

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"Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, “I and my brothers and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, so that we have often delivered Israel."

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1 Maccabees 16:19

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2 Maccabees 8:22

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1 Maccabees 13:1

"Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty army to come into the land of Judah and destroy it utterly."

1 Maccabees 13:2

"He saw that the people were trembling in great fear. So he went up to Jerusalem and gathered the people together."

1 Maccabees 13:3

"He encouraged them, and said to them, “You yourselves know all the things that I, my kindred, and my father’s house have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen."

1 Maccabees 13:4

"Because of this, all my brothers have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone."

1 Maccabees 13:5

"Now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction, for I am not better than my kindred."

1 Maccabees 13:6

"However, I will take vengeance for my nation, for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children, because all the Gentiles have gathered out of hatred to destroy us.”"

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