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Login via Institution. Purchase instant access PDF download and unlimited online access :. Add to Cart. He followed Judas middle son and Jonathan youngest son as leader of the Maccabean revolt. He reigned from BCE. Yet, his role as counselor did not keep him off the battlefield.
When Jews were besieged, Judas put Simon in charge of the forces that were sent to Galilee. Reports indicate that 3, Gentiles fell and the Jews were taken to Judea with great rejoicing.
Soon after, Simon defeated him several more times, leading him to make a treaty of peace with Jonathan. After this, Simon and Jonathan joined forces and were quite successful in defeating the Syrians. This worked well until Trypho tricked Jonathan by inviting him to Ptolemais for treaty talks. Jonathan went with only a few men, who were ambushed, and Jonathan was captured.
Fight our battles, and all that you say to us we will do. When Jonathan became ruler, the Hel. The Syrian Empire was divided by two factions. The rivals were a ruler named Demetrius, and Trypho who was tutor and regent for the young King Antiochus. The ambitious Trypho caused the young Antiochus VI to be murdered and had himself crowned king. Simon was loyal to Demetrius, but he pledged loyalty on condition that Demetrius recognize the freedom of the Jews. Demetrius, who had already lost power in the S of his kingdom, granted remission of all outstanding taxes to the Jews, and exempted them from paying tribute thereafter.
This meant that Judea was now politically free. Although Demetrius did not have power to bestow favors on Simon, since Trypho was still in power in Syria, Simon was able to take advantage of the Syrian civil war to enlarge his holdings.
Gazara Gezer , W of Jerusalem, commanded a mountain path essential to commerce between Jerusalem and the port city of Joppa, already in Jewish hands. Simon was able to take the citadel in Jerusalem from the Syrian garrison, which had to capitulate because of famine.
As long as the Syrians controlled the citadel, Jerusalem was not truly free. The taking of the citadel in May, b. His father, when dying, praised him as a man of counsel, and exhorted his four brothers to heed his advice. Simon justified his father's high opinion of him, and proved himself uniformly sagacious and circumspect. Even during the lifetime of his brothers Judah and Jonathan, Simon took a prominent part in the war of liberation waged against the Syrians: he succored the hard-pressed Jews in Galilee; avenged, in conjunction with Jonathan, the death of his brother John; and fought successfully against Bacchides I Macc.
The successes of the Jews rendered it expedient for the pretenders to the throne of Syria to show them special favor, and therefore Antiochus VI. As strategus Simon conquered the cities of Beth-zur and Joppa, garrisoning them with Jewish troops, and built the fortress of Adida in the plain I Macc.
At Hadid he blocked the advance of the treacherous Trypho, who was attempting to enter the country and seize the throne of Syria. Since Trypho could gain nothing by force, he craftily demanded a ransom for Jonathan and the surrender of Jonathan's sons as hostages.
Although Simon was fully aware that Trypho would deceive him, he acceded to both demands, so that the people might see that he had done everything possible for his brother.
Jonathan was nevertheless treacherously assassinated, and the hostages were not returned. Simon thus became the sole leader of the people.
He had Jonathan's remains buried with honor at Modin, where he subsequently erected a monument to him I Macc. The fact that his request was granted implied the recognition of the political independence of Judea. The statement, found in a rabbinical work Meg.
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