51. And they entered into it on the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred and seventy-first year, with thanksgiving, and palm branches, and lyres, and cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because a great enemy had been crushed out of Israel.
52. And he established that these days should be kept every year with rejoicing.
53. And he fortified the mountain of the temple, which was near the stronghold, and he lived there himself, along with those who were with him.
54. And Simon saw that John, his son, was a valiant man in battle. And so he appointed him as commander of all the forces. And he lived in Gazara.