## The Book of Maccabees I Chapter 16

###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:1
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:1)

ויעל יוחנן מגזר ויספר לשמעון אביו את כל אשר עשה קינדיביוש בארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:2
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:2)

ויקרא שמעון אל יהודה ואל יוחנן בניו הגדולים ויאמר אליהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:3
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:3)

מנעורינו ועד עתה נלחמנו בשונאי ישראל גם אני ואחי וכל בית אבי וה' הצליח דרכנו להציל את ישראל מידם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:4
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:4)

ועתה הנה זקנתי ושבתי ואתם צעירים ממני לימים, לכן התחזקו והיו לאנשים תחתינו, וצאו ללחום את מלחמותינו, ואלוהי השמים יהיה עמכם להושיעכם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
But now I am old, and ye, by God’s mercy, are of a sufficient age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:5
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:5)

ויקומו ויבחרו עשרים אלף איש רגלי ופרשים ויצאו לקראת קנדיביוש למלחמה וילינו הלילה במודעית.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at Modin.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:6
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:6)

ויהי בבוקר באתם המערכה ויישאו את עיניהם ויראו והנה חיל גדול רגלי ופרשים לקראתם, ונחל היה מבדיל בין שתי המחנות.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:7
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:7)

ויהי כי הקריב יוחנן את מחנהו ללכת לקראתו, וירא והנה העם ירא לרדת אל תוך הנחל, וירד הוא ראשונה ויעבור כל העם אחריו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed through after him.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:8
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:8)

ויהי בערכו את העם ויצג את הפרשים בין צבא הרגלים בתוך, כי פרשי האויב היו רבים מהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: for the enemies’ horsemen were very many.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:9
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:9)

ויצווה יוחנן ויתקעו בחצוצרות, וינגף קנדיביוש וינס הוא וכל אנשיו, ויפלו מהם חללים רבים, והנשארים נסו אל תוך המבצר.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant gat them to the strong hold.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:10
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:10)

וימחץ גם יהודה אחי יוחנן במלחמה ההיא, ויוחנן רדף אחריהם עד קדרון אל המבצר אשר בנו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
At that time was Judas John’s brother wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:11
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:11)

וינוסו גם אל המגדלים אשר על דרך אשדוד, וישרוף אותם יוחנן וימותו כאלפים נפש, ויוחנן שב בשלום אל ארץ יהודה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:12
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:12)

ותלמי בן אבובי היה פקיד בערבות יריחו, ויהי לו זהב וכסף לרוב, והוא היה חתן לכוהן הגדול.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold: For he was the high priest’s son in law.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:13
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:13)

ויהי כי רם לבבו למשול בארץ, ויתנכל לשלוח יד בשמעון ובבניו להמיתם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:14
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:14)

ויהי בשנת שבע ושבעים ומאה, בחודש העשתי עשר הוא חדש שבט, ויעבור שמעון בכל ארץ יהודה לשום את עיניו על הארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them;


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:15
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:15)

ויבא גם יריחו ושני בניו מתתיהו ויהודה עמו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:16
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:16)

ויעש בן אבובי בערמה ויאספם במבצר קטן אשר בנה לו ושמו דואך, ויכן להם משתה גדול, וייחבא שם אנשים לארוב להם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a little hold, called Docus, which he had built, made them a great banquet: howbeit he had hid men there.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:17
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:17)

ויהי כטוב לב שמעון ובניו ביין ויקום תלמי ואנשיו וייקחו את חרבם ויבואו אל חדר המשתה, ויהרגו אותו ואת שני בניו ומקצת עבדיו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely, Ptolemee and his men rose up, and took their weapons, and came upon Simon into the banqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and certain of his servants.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:18
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:18)

זאת התועבה אשר עשה תלמי בישראל בגומלו רעה תחת טובה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
In which doing he committed a great treachery, and recompensed evil for good.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:19
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:19)

ויכתוב את הדבר אל המלך, וישאל ממנו חיל לרשת את ארץ יהודה וכל עריה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king, that he should send him an host to aid him, and he would deliver him the country and cities.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:20
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:20)

ועדת מרעים שלח לגזר להכות את יוחנן נפש, וישלח לכל שרי החיל לבוא ולהתקשר אתו, ויאמר לתת להם כסף וזהב ומתנות.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:21
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:21)

ואחרים שלח ירושלימה לתפוש את העיר ואת הר הבית.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:22
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:22)

ויבא הפליט ויגד ליוחנן בגזר לאמור.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now one had run afore to Gazera and told John


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:23
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:23)

הנה אביך ואחיך הומתו בצדיה, ואורבים שולחו לקחת גם את נפשך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:24
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:24)

וישמע יוחנן ותאחזהו פלצות, ויצווה לתפוש את האנשים אשר שולחו להמיתו, ויבוקש הדבר וימצא, ויצווה להמיתם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Hereof when he heard, he was sore astonished: so he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him, and slew them; for he knew that they sought to make him away.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 16:25
[The Book of Maccabees I 16:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/16:25)

ויתר מעשי יוחנן ואת המלחמות ואת כל הגדולות אשר עשה, ואת החומות אשר בנה, הלא הם כתובים על ספר דברי הימים לכוהנים הגדולים, למן היום אשר הוקם לכהן תחת אביו עד יום מותו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
As concerning 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, Behold, these are written in the chronicles of his priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.