1 Maccabees 14:46-48

New Catholic Bible

⁴⁶ “ ‘All of the people have agreed to grant Simon the authority to act in accordance with these decisions. ⁴⁷ Simon has accepted and has agreed to serve as high priest, to be commander and ethnarch of the Jews and the priests, and to be the protector of them all.’ ”

⁴⁸ It was decreed that this inscription should be engraved on bronze tablets and placed in a conspicuous place in the precincts of the temple,