1st Maccabees Chapter 16

The Victory of Simon’s Sons over Cendebareus

16:1 Then John came up from Gaza, and told Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here his father what Cendebeus had done.
16:2 For this reason Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, my brothers, and my father’s house and I, have ever since my youth to this day have fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have saved Israel repeatedly.
16:3 But now I am old, and ya’ll, by God’s mercy, are old enough: to be y’all instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the support from Heaven be with you.
16:4 So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war with cavalry, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at Modin.
16:5 And when as they got up in the morning, and went into the plain, There a mighty great army both of infantry and cavalry came up to meet them: But there was a creek between them.
16:6 So he and his people camped facing them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the creek, he crossed ahead of them, and then the men seeing him followed.
16:7 That done, he divided his men, and set the cavalry among the infantry: because there was a large number of enemy cavalry.
16:8 Then they sounded with the holy trumpets: on which Cendebeus and his army were cause to run, so that many of them were killed, and the rest of them ran back to the strong hold.
16:9 At that time Judas John’s brother was wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had rebuilt.
16:10 Shortly after that they escaped to the towers in the fields of Azotus; and he set fire to it: so that there were about two thousand of them killed . Afterward he returned to the land of Judeaיהודה‎
(Yəhūda Greek: Ἰουδαία Latin: Iudaea) or Judaea – a mountainous region of the Levant. Traditionally dominated by the city of Jerusalem, it is now part of Palestine and Israel. The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name “Judah”, which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. For more info click here in peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, be well, prosperity For more info click here.
16:11 Then in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemy son of Abubus made captain, and he was very rich:
16:12 Because he was Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here the high priest’s son in law.
16:13 But he became too ambitious and wanted to take over the country, So he devised a plan to assassinate Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here and his sons.
16:14 Now Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down to Jerichoיְרִיחוֹ
(/ˈdʒɛrɪkoʊ/ JERR-ik-oh in Hebrew, Yeriẖo, is generally thought to derive from the Canaanite word rēḥ “fragrant”, but other theories hold that it originates in the Canaanite word for “moon” (Yaraḥ) or the name of the lunar deity Yarikh, for whom the city was an early center of worship. For more info click here with his sons, Mattathias (Mathew) and Judas (Judah), in the hundred seventy-seventh year, in the eleventh month, called Shevatשְׁבָט
Šəvaṭ, is the fifth month of the civil year starting in Tishre (or Tishri) and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar starting in Nisan. It is a month of 30 days. Shevat usually occurs in January–February on the Gregorian calendar For more info click here:* 1 Maccabees 16:14 the year 177: This corresponds to 134 B.C.
16:15 Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a small fortress called Dok, which he had built, made them a great banquet: However he had hidden men there.

Simon’s tragic Death at Dok.

16:16 So when Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here and his sons were drunk, Ptolemy and his men got up, and took their weapons, and came on Simonשִׁמְעוֹן הַתַּסִּי
Šīməʿōn haTassī; died 135 BC The name “Thassi” has a connotation of “the Wise”, a title which can also mean “the Director”, “the Guide”, “the Man of Counsel”, and “the Zealous”. This Simon is also sometimes distinguished as Simon the Hasmonean, Simon Maccabee, or (from Latin) Simon Maccabeus. For more info click here into the banqueting place, and killed him, and his two sons, and some of his servants.
16:17 In which doing he committed a great treachery, and reimbursed evil for goodטוֹב
Transliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair. For more info click here.
16:18 Then Ptolemy wrote these things, and sent to the king, that he should send him an army to aid him, and he would deliver him the country and cities.
16:19 He also sent others to Gaza to kill John: and to the military leaders he sent letters to come to him, so that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.
16:20 And others he sent to possess Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, and the mountain of the temple.

Simon’s son John succeeds him

16:21 Before that someone had ran to Gaza and told John that his father and brothers had been killed, and he said, Ptolemy has sent to kill you too.
16:22 When he heard of it, he was very surprised: so he arrested those that had come to destroy him, and killed them; because he knew that they tried to take him away.
16:23 As far as the rest of the acts of John, and his wars, and worthy deeds which he did, and the building of the walls which he made, and his doings,
16:24 See, these are written in the chronicles of his priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.