1 Maccabees 13:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And they should say, Because I sent him not the money and the children, he perished.

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He was concerned that they might say, “Jonathan died because Simon didn’t send the money and his sons.”

"It is because he did not send the money and the boys that he perished."

Because he sent not the money, and the children, therefore is he lost.

He was afraid that they might later say that Jonathan was put to death because Simon would not send the money and the boys.

who might say, “Because I didn’t send him the money and the children, he perished.”

“If Simon had given Trypho what he wanted, Jonathan would still be alive!”