1. During that time, a priest of the Jehoiarib family named Mattathias, who was the son of John and the grandson of Simeon, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modein.
2. Mattathias had five sons: John (also called Gaddi),
3. Simon (also called Thassi),
4. Judas (also called Maccabaeus),
5. Eleazar (also called Avaran), and Jonathan (also called Apphus).
6. When Mattathias saw all the sins that were being committed in Judea and Jerusalem,
29-30. At that time also many of the Israelites who were seeking to be right with God through obedience to the Law went out to live in the wilderness, taking their children, their wives, and their livestock with them, because of the terrible oppression they were suffering.