- from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest, that he may punish them ac- ; cording to their own law.
22 The same things wrote he likewise unto Demetrius the king, and Attalus, to || Ariarathes, and Arsaces,
23 And to all the countries, and to I! or, || Sampsames, and the Lacedemonians, and t0 pelus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Lamps*- Caria, and Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and Rhodus, B or. and || Phalclis, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cy prus, and Gyrene.
24 And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
25 So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day, f assaulting it conti- tZJorcti nually, and making engines, by which toit. means he shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in v.
26 At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him; silver also, and gold, and much armour.
27 Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.
28 Furthermore he sent unto him Athe nobius, one of his friends, to commune with him, and fay, Ye withhold Joppe and Gazara, with the tower that is in Je rusalem, which are cities of my realm.
29 The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.
30 Now therefore deliver the cities which ye have taken, and the tributes of the places, whereof ye have gotten dominion without the borders of Judea :
31 Or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver ; and for the harm that ye have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents : if not, II or, sub- wc wi Come and H fight against you.
- m tu ^2 go Athenobius the king's friend came
to Jerusalem : and when he law the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver p^ate, and his great atfendance, he was asto- nuhed, and told him the king's message
33 Then answered Simon, and laid unto him, We have neither taken other men's land, nor holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fa thers, which our enemies had wrongfully in possession a certain time.
34 Wherefore we, having opportunity, hold the inheritance of our fathers.
35 And whereas thou demandest Joppe and Gazara, albeit they did great harm unto the people in our country, yet will we give an hundred talents for them. Hereunto Athenobius answered him not a word ;
36 But returned in a rage to the king, and made report unto him of these speeches, and of the glory of Simon, and ot all that he had seen : whereupon the king was exceeding wroth.
37 In the mean time fled Tryphon by stiip unto Orthosias.
38 Then the king made Cendebeus cap tain of the sea coast, and gave him an host of footmen and horsemen,
30 And commanded him to remove his on: toward Judea : also he commanded him to build up II Cedron, and to fortify 11 or, the gates, and to war against the people ; G/-1l>r- but as for the king himself, he pursued Tryphon.
40 So Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and stay them.
41 And when he had built up Cedron, he set horsemen there, and an host offoot- men, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.
CHAP. XVI.
THEN came up John ' from Gazara, and told Simon his father what Cen debeus had done.
2 Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and laid unto them, b I, and my brethren, and my father's "ch.i+.isi. house, have ever from our youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel ; and c things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered If-rael oftentimes.
3 But now I am old, and ye, by God's mercy, are of a sufficient age : be ye in stead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.
4 So he chose out os the country twenty thousand men of war with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and relied that night at Modin.
5 And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a
