1 Maccabees 14:46-48

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁶ And it pleased all the people to establish Simon, and to do according to these words.

⁴⁷ And Simon accepted thereof, and was well pleased to execute the office of the high priesthood, and to be captain, and prince of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests, and to be chief over all.

⁴⁸ And they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary, in a conspicuous place: