1 Maccabees 14:46-48

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴⁶ And all the people agreed to grant Simon the right to act in accord with these decisions. ⁴⁷ So Simon accepted and agreed to be high priest, to be commander and ethnarch of the Jews and priests, and to be protector of them all.^{[a] 48} And they gave orders to inscribe this decree upon bronze tablets, to put them up in a conspicuous place in the precincts of the sanctuary,