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1 Maccabees 13:1-30
1 When Simon heard that Trypho was gathering a large army to invade and ravage the land of Judah,
2 and saw that the people were trembling with terror, he went up to Jerusalem. There he assembled the people
3 and exhorted them in these words: “You know what I, my brothers, and my father’s house have done for the laws and the sanctuary; what battles and hardships we have seen.
4 For the sake of this, for the sake of Israel, all my brothers have perished, and I alone am left.
5 Far be it from me, then, to save my own life in any time of distress, for I am not better than my brothers.
6 But I will avenge my nation and the sanctuary, as well as your wives and children, for out of hatred all the Gentiles have united to crush us.”
7 As the people heard these words, their spirit was rekindled.
8 They shouted in reply: “You are our leader in place of your brothers Judas and Jonathan.
9 Fight our battles, and we will do everything that you tell us.”
10 So Simon mustered all the men able to fight, and hastening to complete the walls of Jerusalem, fortified it on every side.
11 He sent Jonathan, son of Absalom, to Joppa with a strong force; Jonathan drove out the occupants and remained there.
12 Then Trypho moved from Ptolemais with a large army to invade the land of Judah, bringing Jonathan with him as a prisoner.
13 Simon encamped at Adida, facing the plain.
14 When Trypho learned that Simon had succeeded his brother Jonathan, and that he intended to fight him, he sent ambassadors to him with this message:
15 “It was on account of the money your brother Jonathan owed the royal treasury in connection with the offices that he held, that we have detained him.
16 Now send a hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons as hostages to guarantee that when he is set free he will not revolt against us, and we will release him.”
17 Simon knew that they were speaking deceitfully to him. Nevertheless, for fear of provoking much hostility among the people, he sent for the money and the boys,
18 lest the people say “Jonathan perished because I would not send Trypho the money and the boys.”
19 So he sent the boys and the hundred talents; but Trypho broke his promise and would not release Jonathan.
20 Next Trypho moved to invade and ravage the country. His troops went around by the road that leads to Adora, but Simon and his army moved along opposite him everywhere he went.
verses 20-21: The invaders made a wide flanking movement
to invade Judea from the south (see 4:29; 6:31).
Adora was a few miles southwest of Beth-zur.
They would avoid Beth-zur itself and other strongholds
of the Maccabees by following the way of the wilderness.
21 The people in the citadel kept sending emissaries to Trypho, pressing him to come to them by way of the wilderness, and to send them provisions.
22 Although Trypho got all his cavalry ready to go, there was a very heavy snowfall that night, and he could not go on account of the snow. So he left for Gilead.
23 When he was approaching Baskama, he had Jonathan killed and buried him there.
24 Then Trypho returned to his own land.
verse 23: Baskama: perhaps northeast of the Sea of Galilee.
25 Simon sent for the remains of his brother Jonathan, and buried him in Modein, the city of his ancestors.
26 All Israel bewailed him with solemn lamentation, mourning over him for many days.
27 Then Simon erected over the tomb of his father and his brothers a monument of stones, polished front and back, and raised high enough to be seen at a distance.
28 He set up seven pyramids facing one another for his father and his mother and his four brothers.
29 For the pyramids he devised a setting of massive columns, which he adorned with suits of armor as a perpetual memorial, and next to the armor carved ships, which could be seen by all who sailed the sea.
30 This tomb which he built at Modein is there to the present day.
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