[Sidenote:  I Macc. 13:23-30] Then he set out and came to the country of Gilead, and when he came near to Bascama, he slew Jonathan, and he was buried there.  But when Tryphon went back into his own land, Simon sent and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried them at Modein, his ancestral city.  And all Israel made great lamentation over him and mourned for him for many days.  And Simon built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brothers, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone on the back and front sides.  He also set up seven pyramids, one opposite another, for his father and his mother and his four brothers.  And for these he made artistic designs, setting about them great pillars, and upon the pillars he fashioned different kinds of arms as an everlasting memorial, and beside the arms ships carved, that they should be seen by all who sail on the sea.  This is the sepulchre which he made at Modein, which stands there at the present time.

[Sidenote:  I Macc. 13:33, 43-48] Then Simon built the strongholds of Judea and fenced them about with high towers and great walls and gates and bars, and laid up stores in the strongholds.  In those days he laid siege to Gazara, and surrounded it with armies, and made an engine of siege and brought it up to the city, and smote a tower and captured it.  And those who were in the engine leaped forth into the city, and there was a great tumult in the city.  And the people of the city tore their garments, and went up on the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, requesting Simon to make peace with them.  And they said, Do not deal with us according to our wickednesses but according to your mercy.  So Simon was reconciled to them and did not fight against them.  But he expelled them from the city and cleansed the houses in which the idols were, and so entered into it with singing and praise.  And when he had put all uncleanness out of it, he placed in it such men as would keep the law and made it stronger than it was before, and built a dwelling place for himself in it.

[Sidenote:  I Macc. 13:49-53] But those who were in the citadel at Jerusalem were prevented from going out and from going into the country, and from buying and selling, so that they suffered exceedingly from hunger, and a great number of them perished through famine.  Then they cried out to Simon to make peace with them.  He did so, but put them out from there, and cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.  And he entered it on the twenty-third day of the second month in the one hundred and seventy-first year, with praise and palm branches, with harps, with cymbals, with viols, with hymns, and with songs, because a great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.  And he ordained that they should observe that day each year with gladness.  And the temple mount, which was beside the citadel, he made stronger than before, and there he dwelt with his men.  And Simon saw that John his son had grown to manhood, and so he made him commander of all his forces.  And he lived in Gazara.