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Simon Maccabeus Entered The Akra At Jerusalem ...
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 17, 2008 (message contributor)
Simon Maccabeus entered the Akra at Jerusalem after its capture, "with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel" (1 Macc 13:51) [source: ISBE article, "Palms"]