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When he approached Baskama, he killed Jonathan, and he was buried there.
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Then Trypho turned and went back to his own land.
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Simon sent and took the bones of his brother Jonathan, and buried him in Modein, the city of his ancestors.
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All Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and mourned for him many days.
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And Simon built a monument over the tomb of his father and his brothers; he made it high so that it might be seen, with polished stone at the front and back.
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He also erected seven pyramids, opposite one another, for his father and mother and four brothers.
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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.