before.

1 Mac 13:28
Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for
his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.

1 Mac 13:29
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.

1 Mac 13:30
This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it standeth
yet unto this day.

1 Mac 13:31
Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus,
and slew him.

1 Mac 13:32
And he reigned in his stead, and crowned himself king of
Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.

1 Mac 13:33
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.

1 Mac 13:34
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.

1 Mac 13:35
Unto whom king Demetrius answered and wrote after this
manner:

1 Mac 13:36
King Demetrius unto Simon the high priest, and friend of
kings, as also unto the elders and nation of the Jews, sendeth
greeting:

1 Mac 13:37
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.

1 Mac 13:38
And whatsoever covenants we have made with you shall stand;
and the strong holds, which ye have builded, shall be your own.

1 Mac 13:39
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.

1 Mac 13:40
And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then
be enrolled, and let there be peace betwixt us.

1 Mac 13:41
Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in
the hundred and seventieth year.

1 Mac 13:42
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.

1 Mac 13:43
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.

1 Mac 13:44
And they that were in the engine l