1 Maccabees 8:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and whom they would, they deposed from a kingdom: and they were greatly exalted.

¹⁴ And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby.

¹⁵ And that they made themselves a senate house, and consulted daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in council always for the people, that they might do the things that were right.