36. and in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David, they that were in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a citadel, out of which they issued, and polluted all things round about the sanctuary, and did great hurt to its purity;
37. and he placed Jews therein, and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and made high the walls of Jerusalem:
38. and king Demetrius confirmed to him the high priesthood according to these things,
39. and made him one of his Friends, and honored him with great honor;
40. for he had heard say, that the Jews had been called by the Romans friends and confederates and brethren, and that they had met the ambassadors of Simon honorably;