wicked life, assembled
themselves against him, to accuse him: and the king gave no heed to
them.

10:62. And he commanded that Jonathan's garments should he taken off,
and that he shonld be clothed with purple: and they did so. And the king
made him sit by himself.

10:63. And he said to his princes: Go out with him into the midst of the
city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any
matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.

10:64. So when his accusers saw his glory proclaimed, and him clothed
with purple, they all fled away.

10:65. And the king magnified him, and enrolled him amongst his chief
friends, and made him governor, and partaker of his dominion.

10:66. And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with peace and joy.

10:67. In the year one hundred and sixty-five, Demetrius, the son of
Demetrius, came from Crete into the land of his fathers.

10:68. And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and
returned to Antioch.

10:69. And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor
of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia:
and he sent to Jonathan, the high priest,

10:70. Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and
reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountuins.

10:71. Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us
into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the
strength of war.

10:72. Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say
that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice
been put to flight in their own land:

10:73. And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great
an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to
flee to?

10:74. Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in
his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and
Simon, his brother, met him to help him.

10:75. And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out of
the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid
siege to it.

10:76. And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the gates
to him: so Jonathan took Joppe.

10:77. And Apollonius heard of it, and he took three thousand horsemen,
and a great army.

10:78. And he went to Azotus, as one that was making a journey, and
immediately he went