According to this book, a certain man from the territory of Benjamin called Meqabis (or Maccabeus) had three sons Abya (Amharic: አብያ - Abijah), Seela (Amharic: ሴላ - Shelah), and Pantos (Pantera, or Fentos), who opposed the tyrannical policies of the king and refused to worship his idols. Their account consumes only a short section of the book, spanning chapters 1 through chapter 4. They are noted elsewhere in the hagiographical text of the Ethiopian Synaxarion, and hold a feast day within the Ethiopian Church.