14:9 The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
14:10 He provided victuals for the cities, and set in them all manner of munition, so that his honourable name was renowned unto the end of the world.
14:11 He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:
14:12 For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to fray them:
14:13 Neither was there any left in the land to fight against them: yea, the kings themselves were overthrown in those days.
14:14 Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law and wicked person he took away.
14:15 He beautified the sanctuary, and multiplied vessels of the temple.
14:16 Now when it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead, they were very sorry.
14:17 But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein:
14:18 They wrote unto him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and league which they had made with Judas and Jonathan his brethren: