1 Maccabees 2:65-3:1

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶⁵ And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel: give ear to him always, and he shall be a father to you.

⁶⁶ And Judas Machabeus who is valiant and strong from his youth up, let him be the leader of your army, and he shall manage the war of the people.

⁶⁷ And you shall take to you all that observe the law: and revenge ye the wrong of your people.

⁶⁸ Render to the Gentiles their reward, and take heed to the precepts of the law.

⁶⁹ And he blessed them, and was joined to his fathers.

⁷⁰ And he died in the hundred and forty-sixth year: and he was buried by his sons in the sepulchres of his fathers in Modin, and all Israel mourned for him with great mourning.

3 Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead.