# 1 Maccabees 16:2

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- Book: [1 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-maccabees)
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Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.