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For the pyramids he devised an elaborate setting, erecting about them great columns, and on the columns he put suits of armor for a permanent memorial, and beside the suits of armor he carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea.
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This is the tomb that he built in Modein; it remains to this day.
31
Trypho dealt treacherously with the young King Antiochus; he killed him
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and became king in his place, putting on the crown of Asia; and he brought great calamity on the land.
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But Simon built up the strongholds of Judea and walled them all around, with high towers and great walls and gates and bolts, and he stored food in the strongholds.
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