1 Maccabees 16:2
Good News Translation
Simon said to John and Judas, his two oldest sons, "All my father's family, my brothers, and I have fought Israel's battles all our lives, and many times we have been successful in saving Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
And Simon called in his two eldest sons Judas and John, and said to them: “My brothers and I and my father’s house have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times.

Contemporary English Version
Then Simon met with John and Judas, his two oldest sons, and said to them: My brothers and I, and everyone else in my father's family, have fought for our people ever since we were young. God blessed us when we fought, and we rescued Israel many times.

New American Bible
Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: “I and my brothers and my father’s house have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until today, and many times we succeeded in saving Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.

1 Maccabees 15:41
And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue forth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.

1 Maccabees 16:1
Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done against their people.

1 Maccabees 16:3
And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.

1 Maccabees 16:4
Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin.

Context
1 Maccabees 16
1Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done against their people. 2And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. 3And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 15:41
And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue forth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.

1 Maccabees 16:1
Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done against their people.

1 Maccabees 16:3
And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.

1 Maccabees 16:4
Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin.



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