He constructed seven pyramids side by side 1 Mac 13.28

1 Maccabees 13:28-38

28 He constructed seven pyramids side by side for his father, his mother, and his four brothers.

29 For the pyramids he created a setting of tall columns on which there were carvings. Some of these carvings were of suits of armor and some were of ships. It was a monument to their victories, which travelers from overseas could visit.

 

Antiochus changed his name to Eupator 1 mac6.17

and he took down the HORROR on Top of the Altar

 

heathen were angry the alter was rebuilt
judas fought sons of Esau....remembering old wickedness, he burned towers
many of the brothers in the district of Tob had their wives and children taken captivew

they were still reading when messengers of galliee showed up In TORN clothes, w message to the same effect.
saying Ptolemais, Tyre & Sidon AND all Galilee aliens gathered together to destroy them.
Judas had a meeting, went to battle and one

judas crosses jordan, armies fell before the maccabees, it was reported the heathen hired arabs to help them.
judas kept gathering those who fell behind

some priests fell in the battle, because they wanted to distinguish themselves.

judas tore down their altar and burned their carved images

judas grew strong in th quantity of arms
and he took down the HORROR on Top of the Altar

the king was shaken, knew he was gonna die
confirmed kingdom to phllip, gave him  a signet ring

but his son Antiochus reigned instead..changed his name to Eupator
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men in the citadel kept harassing Israel and giving support to the heathen

Judas Maccabeus appointed men to fight the garrison (paid soldier) at the citadel

stand your ground against your enemies

Then Judas went back to plunder the camp, and they took much gold and silver, cloth dyed blue and marine purple, and great treasure. 24As they returned, they were singing hymns and glorifying Heaven, “who is good, whose mercy endures forever.”^c 25

Give this army into the hands of your people Israel; make them ashamed of their troops and their cavalry. 32Strike them with cowardice, weaken the boldness of their strength, and let them tremble at their own destruction. 33Strike them down by the sword of those who love you, that all who know your name may sing your praise.”
34Then they engaged in battle, and about five thousand of Lysias’ army fell in hand-to-hand fighting. 



they went to Mount Zion to purify sanctuary & rededicate it

Judas appointed men to fight the garrison (paid soldier) at the citadel 

he also appointed law abidiing priests who decided to take down the whole altar so it could never be said the heathens polluted it.
the built a new altar
made new holy dishes
put out bread and hung curtains

on the 25th day of 9th month they celebrated the rededication of the altar for 8 days
small crowns & shields were their decorations

he saw the money in treasury exhausted, because of dissensions he brought on himself

by abolishing the laws which had been in effect from of old. 
 1 MACCABEES 3


for victory in war does not depend upon the size of the army, but on strength that comes from Heaven.^a 20With great presumption and lawlessness they come against us to destroy us and our wives and children and to despoil us; 21but we are fighting for our lives and our laws. 22He^* will crush them before us; so do not fear them.”



When King Antiochus heard these reports, he was filled with rage; so he ordered that all the forces of his kingdom be gathered, a very strong army. 28He opened his treasury, gave his soldiers a year’s pay, and commanded them to be prepared for anything. 29But then he saw that this exhausted the money in his treasury; moreover the tribute from the province was small because of the dissension and distress he had brought upon the land by abolishing the laws which had been in effect from of old. 30


2He left Lysias, a noble of royal descent, in charge of the king’s affairs from the Euphrates River to the frontier of Egypt, 33and commissioned him to take care of his son Antiochus until his return. 34He entrusted to him half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him instructions concerning everything he wanted done. As for the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem, 35Lysias was to send an army against them to crush and destroy the power of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem and efface their memory from the place. 36He was to settle foreigners in all their territory and distribute their land by lot. 37^* The king took the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven; he crossed the Euphrates River and went through the provinces beyond.

Preparations for Battle.

40Setting out with their whole force, they came and pitched their camp near Emmaus^* in the plain. 41When the merchants of the region heard of their prowess, they came to the camp, bringing a huge sum of silver and gold, along with fetters, to buy the Israelites as slaves. A force from Edom and from Philistia joined with them.

46^* Thus they assembled and went to Mizpah near Jerusalem, because formerly at Mizpah there was a place of prayer for Israel.^c 47That day they fasted and wore sackcloth; they sprinkled ashes on their heads and tore their garments. 48They unrolled the scroll of the law, to learn about the things for which the Gentiles consulted the images of their idols.^* 

 

Jonathan having rallied his nation and become its high priest

 https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=20&bible_chapter=14



I served the USMC, where i was given an eagle, globe and anchor pendant, and the globe story might fake as the bible indicates a flat jar earth. The US has been gassing its own, vaxing its own, hurting its own for a very long time. Many of us vets and non vets are now disabled. The people are the goods lost at flat level sea. Put your insurance policy numbers and money and services and houses & cars where your sorry is




¹ In the year 172, King Demetrius assembled his forces and marched into Media to raise help for the fight against Trypho.
² When Arsaces king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius had entered his territory, he sent one of his generals to capture him alive.
³ The general defeated the army of Demetrius, seized him and brought him to Arsaces, who imprisoned him.

⁴ The country was at peace throughout the days of Simon. He sought the good of his nation and they were well pleased with his authority, as with his magnificence, throughout his life.
⁵ To crown his titles to glory, he took Joppa and made it a harbour, gaining access to the Mediterranean Isles.
⁶ He enlarged the frontiers of his nation, keeping his mastery over the homeland,
⁷ resettling a host of captives. He conquered Gezer, Beth-Zur and the Citadel, ridding them of every impurity, and no one could resist him.
⁸ The people farmed their land in peace; the land gave its produce, the trees of the plain their fruit.

the citadel became evil adversary of Israel, ,they shed innocent blood

 They took captive the women and children, and seized the livestock. ³³ Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel. ³⁴ They stationed there a sinful people, men who were renegades. These strengthened their position; ³⁵ they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great menace,

³⁶ for the citadel^[d] became an ambush against the sanctuary,
    an evil adversary of Israel at all times.
³⁷ On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood;
    they even defiled the sanctuary.
³⁸ Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled;
    she became a dwelling of strangers;
she became strange to her offspring,
    and her children forsook her.
³⁹ Her sanctuary became desolate like a desert;
    her feasts were turned into mourning,
her sabbaths into a reproach,
    her honor into contempt.
⁴⁰ Her dishonor now grew as great as her glory;
    her exaltation was turned into mourning.

1 mac 1   33-40

Murder of Simon & His Sons 1 Mac 16.11

1 mac 16

Murder of Simon and His Sons

¹¹ Now Ptolemy son of Abubus had been appointed governor over the plain of Jericho; he had a large store of silver and gold, ¹² for he was son-in-law of the high priest. ¹³ His heart was lifted up; he determined to get control of the country, and made treacherous plans against Simon and his sons, to do away with them. ¹⁴ Now Simon was visiting the towns of the country and attending to their needs, and he went down to Jericho with his sons Mattathias and Judas, in the one hundred seventy-seventh year,^[e] in the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat. ¹⁵ The son of Abubus received them treacherously in the little stronghold called Dok, which he had built; he gave them a great banquet, and hid men there. ¹⁶ When Simon and his sons were drunk, Ptolemy and his men rose up, took their weapons, rushed in against Simon in the banquet hall and killed him and his two sons, as well as some of his servants. ¹⁷ So he committed an act of great treachery and returned evil for good.

go out, fight for our nation. May the help that comes from Heaven be with you. 1 Mac1616

1 Maccabees 16 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

16 John went up from Gazara and reported to his father Simon what Cendebeus had done. ² And Simon called in his two eldest sons Judas and John, and said to them: “My brothers and I and my father’s house have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times. ³ But now I have grown old, and you by Heaven’s^[a] mercy are mature in years. Take my place and my brother’s, and go out and fight for our nation, and may the help that comes from Heaven be with you.”

Antiochus VII Threatens Simon 1 Mac 15.25

Antiochus VII Threatens Simon 1 Mac 15.25

²⁵ King Antiochus besieged Dor for the second time, continually throwing his forces against it and making engines of war; and he shut Trypho up and kept him from going out or in. ²⁶ And Simon sent to Antiochus^[e] two thousand picked troops, to fight for him, and silver and gold and a large amount of military equipment. ²⁷ But he refused to receive them, and broke all the agreements he formerly had made with Simon, and became estranged from him. ²⁸ He sent to him Athenobius, one of his Friends, to confer with him, saying, “You hold control of Joppa and Gazara and the citadel in Jerusalem; they are cities of my kingdom. ²⁹ You have devastated their territory, you have done great damage in the land, and you have taken possession of many places in my kingdom. ³⁰ Now then, hand over the cities that you have seized and the tribute money of the places that you have conquered outside the borders of Judea; ³¹ or else pay me five hundred talents of silver for the destruction that you have caused and five hundred talents more for the tribute money of the cities. Otherwise we will come and make war on you.”
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scoundrels have gained control of the kingdom & I have recruited mercenary troops intending to restore it

“King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and ethnarch and to the nation of the Jews, greetings. ³ Whereas certain scoundrels have gained control of the kingdom of our ancestors, and I intend to lay claim to the kingdom so that I may restore it as it formerly was, and have recruited a host of mercenary troops and have equipped warships, ⁴ and intend to make a landing in the country so that I may proceed against those who have destroyed our country and those who have devastated many cities in my kingdom, ⁵ now therefore I confirm to you all the tax remissions that the kings before me have granted you, and a release from all the other payments from which they have released you. ⁶ I permit you to mint your own coinage as money for your country, ⁷ and I grant freedom to Jerusalem and the sanctuary. All the weapons that you have prepared and the strongholds that you have built and now hold shall remain yours.

and that he should be clothed in purple and wear gold. (buckle)

⁴¹ “The Jews and their priests have resolved that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until a trustworthy prophet should arise, ⁴² and that he should be governor over them and that he should take charge of the sanctuary and appoint officials over its tasks and over the country and the weapons and the strongholds, and that he should take charge of the sanctuary, ⁴³ and that he should be obeyed by all, and that all contracts in the country should be written in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple and wear gold.
⁴⁴ “None of the people or priests shall be permitted to nullify any of these decisions or to oppose what he says, or to convene an assembly in the country without his permission, or to be clothed in purple or put on a gold buckle. 

Simon sent Numenius with a large gold shield to Rome to confirm the alliance

1 mac 14 Diplomacy with Rome and Sparta
¹⁶ It was heard in Rome, and as far away as Sparta, that Jonathan had died, and they were deeply grieved. ¹⁷ When they heard that his brother Simon had become high priest in his stead, and that he was ruling over the country and the towns in it, ¹⁸ they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew with him the friendship and alliance that they had established with his brothers Judas and Jonathan. ¹⁹ And these were read before the assembly in Jerusalem.
²⁰ This is a copy of the letter that the Spartans sent:
“The rulers and the city of the Spartans to the high priest Simon and to the elders and the priests and the rest of the Jewish people, our brothers, greetings. ²¹ The envoys who were sent to our people have told us about your glory and honor, and we rejoiced at their coming. ²² We have recorded what they said in our public decrees, as follows, ‘Numenius son of Antiochus and Antipater son of Jason, envoys of the Jews, have come to us to renew their friendship with us. ²³ It has pleased our people to receive these men with honor and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to the high priest Simon.’”
²⁴ After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a large gold shield weighing one thousand minas, to confirm the alliance with the Romans.^[d]

he expelled them and cleansed the citadel from its pollutions

Then they cried to Simon to make peace with them, and he did so. But he expelled them from there and cleansed the citadel from its pollutions. ⁵¹ On the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred seventy-first year,^[j] the Jews^[k] entered it with praise and palm branches, and with harps and cymbals and stringed instruments, and with hymns and songs, because a great enemy had been crushed and removed from Israel. ⁵² Simon^[l] decreed that every year they should celebrate this day with rejoicing. He strengthened the fortifications of the temple hill alongside the citadel, and he and his men lived there. ⁵³ Simon saw that his son John had reached manhood, and so he made him commander of all the forces; and he lived at Gazara.

 

Send 100 talents of silver & 2 of his sons as hostages, so he will not revolt against us

¹⁴ Trypho learned that Simon had risen up in place of his brother Jonathan, and that he was about to join battle with him, so he sent envoys to him and said, ¹⁵ “It is for the money that your brother Jonathan owed the royal treasury, in connection with the offices he held, that we are detaining him. ¹⁶ Send now one hundred talents of silver and two of his sons as hostages, so that when released he will not revolt against us, and we will release him.”

a high barrier between citadel & city to isolate it so garrison could not buy or sell

When Jonathan returned, he assembled the elders of the people, and with them he made plans for building strongholds in Judea, 36for making the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and for erecting a high barrier between the citadel and the city, to separate it from the city and isolate it, so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell.

1 mac 12. 36

“Arius, king of the Spartans, sends greetings to Onias the high priest.

We have also ordered them to come to you and greet you, and to deliver to you our letter concerning the renewal of our brotherhood. 18Therefore kindly send us an answer on this matter.”
19This is a copy of the letter that they sent to Onias: 20^e “Arius, king of the Spartans, sends greetings to Onias the high priest. 21A document has been found stating that the Spartans and the Jews are brothers and that they are of the family of Abraham. 22Now that we have learned this, kindly write to us about your welfare. 23We, for our part, declare to you that your animals and your possessions are ours, and ours are yours. We have, therefore, given orders that you should be told of this.” 

Alliances with Rome and Sparta.

Alliances with Rome and Sparta. 1When Jonathan saw that the time was right, he chose men and sent them to Rome to confirm and renew the friendship with the Romans.^a 2He also sent letters to the Spartans and other places to the same effect.

3After reaching Rome, the men entered the senate chamber and said, “The high priest Jonathan and the Jewish people have sent us to renew the friendship and alliance of earlier times with them.” 4The Romans gave them letters addressed to authorities in various places, with the request to provide them with safe conduct to the land of Judah.
5This is a copy of the letter that Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

  6“Jonathan the high priest, the senate of the nation, the priests, and the rest of the Jewish people send greetings to their brothers the Spartans. 7Long ago a letter was sent^* to the high priest Onias from Arius, who then reigned over you, stating that you are our brothers, as the attached copy shows.^b 8Onias welcomed the envoy with honor and received the letter, which spoke clearly of alliance and friendship. 9Though we have no need of these things, since we have for our encouragement the holy books that are in our possession,^{* c} 10we have ventured to send word to you for the renewal of brotherhood and friendship, lest we become strangers to you; a long time has passed since you sent your message to us. 11We, on our part, have unceasingly remembered you in the sacrifices and prayers that we offer on our feasts and other appropriate days, as it is right and proper to remember brothers. 12We likewise rejoice in your renown. 13But many tribulations and many wars have beset us, and the kings around us have attacked us. 14We did not wish to be troublesome to you and to the rest of our allies and friends in these wars. 15For we have the help of Heaven for our support, and we have been saved from our enemies, and our enemies have been humbled. 16

Antiochus sent Jonathan gold plates, gave him right to drink from gold cups, to dress in royal purple & wear gold buckle

1 mac 11

After this, Trypho returned and brought with him the young boy Antiochus, who became king and put on the diadem.^f 55All the soldiers whom Demetrius had discharged rallied around Antiochus and fought against Demetrius, who was routed and fled. 56Trypho captured the elephants and occupied Antioch. 

1 mac 11

57Then young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan“I confirm you in the high priesthood and appoint you ruler over the four districts, and to be one of the King's Friends.” 58He also sent him gold dishes and a table service, gave him the right to drink from gold cups, to dress in royal purple, and to wear a gold buckle.

Extend friendship to us, make the Jews stop attacking us & the city. 1 mac 11.50

“Extend the hand of friendship to us, and make the Jews stop attacking us and the city.” 51So they threw down their weapons and made peace. The Jews thus gained honor in the eyes of the king and all his subjects, and they became renowned throughout his kingdom. Finally they returned to Jerusalem with much plunder.
52But when King Demetrius was sure of his royal throne, and the land was peaceful under his rule, 53he broke all his promises and became estranged from Jonathan. Instead of repaying Jonathan for all the favors he had received from him, he caused him much distress. 

Demetrius to Jonathan: ". I will greatly honor you & your nation when I find opportunity

Demetrius, in turn, sent this word to Jonathan: “I will do not only this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honor you and your nation when I find the opportunity. 43Now, therefore, you will do well to send men to fight for me, because all my troops have revolted.”
44So Jonathan sent three thousand good fighting men to him at Antioch. When they came to the king, he was delighted over their arrival. 45The populace, one hundred and twenty thousand strong, massed in the center of the city in an attempt to kill the king. 46So the king took refuge in the palace, while the populace gained control of the main streets of the city and prepared for battle. 47Then the king called the Jewish force to his aid. They all rallied around him and spread out through the city. On that day they killed about a hundred thousand in the city. 48At the same time, they set the city on fire and took much spoil. Thus they saved the king. 49When the populace saw that the Jewish force controlled the city, they lost courage and cried out to the king in supplication, 50“Extend the hand of friendship to us, and make the Jews stop attacking us and the city.” 51So they threw down their weapons and made peace. The Jews thus gained honor in the eyes of the king and all his subjects, and they became renowned throughout his kingdom. Finally they returned to Jerusalem with much plunder.
52But when King Demetrius was sure of his royal throne, and the land was peaceful under his rule, 53he broke all his promises and became estranged from Jonathan. Instead of repaying Jonathan for all the favors he had received from him, he caused him much distress.