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35 And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe 3 And now I am old, but be you instead of me,
and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our
and to our country: yet for these we will give a nation: and the help from heaven be with you.
hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him 4 Then he chose out of the country twenty
not a word. thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they
36 But returning in a rage to the king, made went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested
report to him of these words, and of the glory of in Modin.
Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king 5 And they arose in the morning, and went
was exceeding angry. into the plain: and behold a very great army of
37 And Tryphon fled away by ship to Or- footmen and horsemen came against them, and
thosias. there was a running river between them.
38 And the king appointed Cendebeus cap- 6 And he and his people pitched their camp
tain of the sea coast, and gave him an army of over against them, and he saw that the people
footmen and horsemen. were afraid to go over the river, so he went over
39 And he commanded him to march with his first: then the men seeing him, passed over after
army towards Judea: and he commanded him to him.
build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the 7 And he divided the people, and set the
city, and to war against the people. But the king horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the
himself pursued after Tryphon. horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.
40 And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and be- 8 And they sounded the holy trumpets: and
gan to provoke the people, and to ravage Judea, Cendebeus and his army were put to flight: and
and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and there fell many of them wounded, and the rest
to build Gedor. fled into the strong hold.
41 And he placed there horsemen, and an 9 At that time, Judas, John’s brother, was
army: that they might issue forth, and make wounded: but John pursued after them, till he
incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king came to Cedron, which he had built:
10 And they fled even to the towers that were
had commanded him.
in the fields of Azotus, and he burnt them with
fire. And there fell of them two thousand men,
Chapter 16 and he returned into Judea in peace.
11 Now Ptolemee, the son of Abobus, was ap-
Then John came up from Gazara, and told pointed captain in the plain of Jericho, and he
Simon, his father, what Cendebeus had done had abundance of silver and gold.
against their people. 12 For he was son in law of the high priest.
2 And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas 13 And his heart was lifted up, and he de-
and John, and said to them: I and my brethren, signed to make himself master of the country,
and my father’s house, have fought against the and he purposed treachery against Simon and
enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: his sons, to destroy them.
and things have prospered so well in our hands, 14 Now Simon, as he was going through the
that we have delivered Israel oftentimes. cities that were in the country of Judea, and