1 Maccabees 14:26-28
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
26 For he and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm; they have fought and repulsed Israel’s enemies and established its freedom.’ 27 So they made a record on bronze tablets and put it on pillars on Mount Zion.
This is a copy of what they wrote: ‘On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the one hundred and seventy-second year,[a] which is the third year of the great high priest Simon, 28 in Asaramel,[b] in the great assembly of the priests and the people and the rulers of the nation and the elders of the country, the following was proclaimed to us:
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- 1 Maccabees 14:27 140 bc
- 1 Maccabees 14:28 This word resembles the Hebrew words for the court of the people of God or the prince of the people of God
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