Now be the first to come and do what the king commands, as all the Gentiles and the men of Judah and those that are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and your sons will be numbered among the friends of the king, and you and your sons will be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.”

They also brought the garments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the Naz′irites who had completed their days;

So the armies met in battle on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. The army of Nica′nor was crushed, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.

In the first month of the one hundred and fifty-second year they encamped against Jerusalem;

And all the additional funds which the government officials have not paid as they did in the first years, they shall give from now on for the service of the temple.

They favored Alexander, because he had been the first to speak peaceable words to them, and they remained his allies all his days.

and the people began to write in their documents and contracts, “In the first year of Simon the great high priest and commander and leader of the Jews.”