1 Maccabees 10:21-23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
21 Jonathan put on the sacred vestments in the seventh month of the one hundred and sixtieth year at the feast of Booths,[a] and he gathered an army and procured many weapons.
A Letter from Demetrius to Jonathan. 22 When Demetrius heard of these things, he was distressed and said: 23 “Why have we allowed Alexander to get ahead of us by gaining the friendship of the Jews and thus strengthening himself?
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- 10:21 Jonathan…feast of Booths: Jonathan began to discharge the office of high priest in October 152 B.C. For seven years after the death of Alcimus there had been no high priest in Jerusalem. It was taken for granted that the king, though a Gentile, had the power to appoint one (2 Mc 4:7, 23–24). The Maccabees, though a priestly family (1 Mc 2:1), were not of the line of Zadok, and some in Israel (perhaps the Qumran community) regarded Jonathan’s tenure as a usurpation.
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