d to our country: yet for these we will give
a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word.

15:36. But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these
words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the
king was exceeding angry.

15:37. And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias.

15:38. And the king appointed Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and
gave him an army of footmen and horsemen.

15:39. And he commanded him to march with his army towards Judea: and he
commanded him to build up Gedor, and to fortify the gates of the city,
and to war against the people. But the king himself pursued after
Tryphon.

15:40. And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people,
and to ravage Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and to kill, and
to build Gedor.

15:41. And he placed there horsemen, and an army: that they might issue
forth, and make incursions upon the ways of Judea, as the king had
commanded him.

1 Machabees Chapter 16

The sons of Simon defeat the troops of Antiochus. Simon with two of his
sons are treacherously murdered by Ptolemee his son in law.

16:1. Then John came up from Gazara, and told Simon, his father, what
Cendebeus had done against their people.

John... He was afterwards surnamed Hircanus, and succeeded his father in
both his dignities of high priest and prince. He conquered the Edomites,
and obliged them to a conformity with the Jews in religion; and
destroyed the schismatical temple of the Samaritans.

16:2. And Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said to
them: I and my brethren, and my father's house, have fought against the
enemies of Israel from our youth even to this day: and things have
prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel
oftentimes.

16:3. And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and
go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.

16:4. Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and
horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in
Modin.

16:5. And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold
a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there
was a running river between them.

16:6. And he and his people pitched their camp over against them, and he
saw that the people were afraid to go over the river, so he went over
first: then the men seeing him, pa