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And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.
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Simon also built a monument upon the sepulcher of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
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Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one opposite another, for his father and his mother and his four brethren.
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And in these he made skillful designs, about which he set great pillars; and upon the pillars he made all their armor for a perpetual memory, and by the armor ships carved, that they might be seen by all who sail on the sea.
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This is the sepulcher which he made at Modin, and it standeth yet unto this day.
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Now Trypho dealt deceitfully with the young King Antiochus, and slew him.
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And he reigned in his stead, and crowned himself king of Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.
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Then Simon built up the strongholds in Judea, and fenced them about with high towers and great walls and gates and bars, and laid up victuals therein.
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Moreover Simon chose men and sent to King Demetrius to the end that he should give the land an immunity, because all that Trypho did was to despoil.
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Unto him King Demetrius answered and wrote in this manner:
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King Demetrius unto Simon the high priest and friend of kings, as also unto the elders and nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting: