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1 Maccabees 14:46 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words. "
1 Maccabees 14:46
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44 and that it should not be lawful for any of the people or of the priests to nullify any of these things, or to oppose the words that he should speak, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;
45 but whoever should do otherwise, or nullify any of these things, he will be liable to punishment.’”
46 All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words.
47 So Simon accepted this, and consented to be high priest, and to be captain and governor of the Jews and of the priests, and to be protector of all.
48 They commanded to put this writing on tablets of brass, and to set them up within the precinct of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place,
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1 Maccabees 14:1
"In the one hundred seventy-second year, King Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get help, that he might fight against Tryphon."
1 Maccabees 14:2
"When Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius had come into his borders, he sent one of his princes to take him alive."
1 Maccabees 14:3
"He went and struck the army of Demetrius, and seized him and brought him to Arsaces, who put him under guard."
1 Maccabees 14:4
"The land had rest all the days of Simon. He sought the good of his nation. His authority and his honor was pleasing to them all his days."
1 Maccabees 14:5
"Amid all his honors, he took Joppa for a harbor, and made it an entrance for the islands of the sea."
1 Maccabees 14:6
"He enlarged the borders of his nation and took possession of the country."
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