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1 Maccabees 14:26-28
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 14:26-28
New Catholic Bible
26 He and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm and repulsed the enemies of Israel, ensuring the nation’s freedom.” Therefore, they engraved an inscription on bronze tablets and affixed them to pillars on Mount Zion. 27 [a]The following is a copy of the inscription:
“On the eighteenth day of Elul,[b] in the year one hundred and seventy-two, the third year of the high priesthood of Simon, 28 in Asaramel, in a great assembly of the priests and the people and the rulers of the nation and the elders of the country, the following resolution was approved:
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- 1 Maccabees 14:27 The high priest held his office by divine appointment, indicated by descent from a particular family. But because there was no legitimate claimant, Simon was legitimized by a process known in ancient Israel (see Ex 19; 2 Ki 23; Ezr 10; Neh 9).
- 1 Maccabees 14:27 Elul is the sixth month of the year (the name is Babylonian but was used by the Jews after the Exile). Hence, we are in September of the year 140 B.C. Asaramel: a Hebrew word meaning “court of the people of God.”
