1 Maccabees 14:24
“After this, Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of golde of a thousand pound weight, to confirme the league with them.”
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1 Maccabees 14:24 Context
22And did register the things that they spake, in the counsell of the people, in this maner: Numenius sonne of Antiochus, and Antipater sonne of Iason, the Iewes Embassadours, came vnto vs, to renew the friendship they had with vs. 23And it pleased the people to entertaine the men honourably, and to put the copy of their embassage in publike records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might haue a memoriall therof: furthermore we haue written a copy thereof vnto Simon the hie Priest. 24After this, Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of golde of a thousand pound weight, to confirme the league with them. 25Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thankes shall wee giue to Simon and his sonnes? 26For hee and his brethren, and the house of his father, haue established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their libertie.
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After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight to confirm the league with them.
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