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And for the pyramids he devised an elaborate setting, erecting about them great columns, and upon the columns he put suits of armor for a permanent memorial, and beside the suits of armor carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea.
30
This is the tomb which 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 upon the land.
33
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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