1 Maccabees 8:14

14 yet for all this, none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple to be magnified thereby;

1 Maccabees 8:14 In-Context

12 but with their friends and such as relied upon them they kept amity; and that they had conquered kingdoms both far and nigh, insomuch that all who heard of their name were afraid of them;

13 also that whom they would help to a kingdom, those reign; and whom again they would, they depose; finally, that they were greatly exalted;

14 yet for all this, none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple to be magnified thereby;

15 moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting always for the people, to the end that they might be well ordered;

16 and that they committed their government to one man every year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were obedient to that one, and that there was neither envy nor emulation among them.