**Yehudah** ben Tabbai and Shimon ben Shatach were the 31st receivers according to Abarbanel [in Seder HaDorot]. They received in year 3621 [from Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachyah and Nitai HaArbeli]. And their days extended until year 3722 [(Tzeda) and see above year 3560].

**Shaltzion** [the queen (see above year 3660) is mentioned in Shabbat chapter 1 (16b) who made a feast for her son, and the vessels became impure, and she gave them to the smith. And our Sages said they should return to their original impurity. Rashi explains this was in the days of Shimon ben Shatach. And in the second chapter of Ta'anit it says the Kohen Gadol.

Her servant was like a slave of a king, the servant said...]

**Choni HaMe'agel** [(see above year 1460)] was in this time [(Tzeda)]. Yuchsin wrote [in Seder HaDorot] in the name of Josephus [(and see above year 3697 in the name of Sha'ar HaDorot)] that he was killed outside of Yerushalayim when the Chashmona'im kings Hyrkanos and Aristobulus were at war with each other. And in Sha'ar HaDorot 32, he wrote that he was alive in the days of Reish Lakish and heard from one sage in the name of the Zohar that Choni HaMe'agel is Rabbi Pinchas ben Ya'ir [(see there)].

In his days was the Kohen who made the red heifer, Eliyoani ben HaKof. Recipients 27 [(Yuchsin in Seder HaDorot)].

**Mattityahu** ben Yochanan the Kohen Gadol rebelled against Antiochus and the beginning of Mattityahu's kingdom was year 3621 [(Ritva to the beginning of the building of the Temple), see above year 1496 and Sha'ar HaDorot 24 and Yuchsin in Seder HaDorot]. And he had 5 sons who were mighty warriors: Yehudah the firstborn, Yonatan the second, Yochanan the third, Shimon the fourth, Elazar the fifth. And all of them reigned one after another except Elazar [(Yesod Olam, Yuchsin at the end).

And it is puzzling that Yochanan his third son who reigned is not mentioned. Mattityahu was from the family of Yehudah ben Yaakov. Yehonatan his son was from the family of Yonatan ben Shaul. Shimon was from the family of Shimon ben Yaakov (Bereishit Rabbah).

In Yotzer of Shabbat Chanukah at the end of 'HaZulat' it says 'twelve witnesses: Elazar and his two sons and Yochanan and seven' who are 12, and so it is concluded. And this requires investigation for I have not found this].