he high priest stock, but was
induced by Lysias to translate that dignity from his family to another
house, he fled to Ptolemy, king of Egypt; and when he found he was
in great esteem with him, and with his wife Cleopatra, he desired and
obtained a place in the Nomus of Heliopolis, wherein he built a temple
like to that at Jerusalem; of which therefore we shall hereafter give an
account, in a place more proper for it.

CHAPTER 10. How Bacchides, The General Of Demetrius's Army, Made An
Expedition Against Judea, And Returned Without Success; And How Nicanor
Was Sent A Little Afterward Against Judas And Perished, Together With
His Army; As Also Concerning The Death Of Alcimus And The Succession Of
Judas.

1. About the same time Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, fled away from
Rome, and took Tripoli, a city of Syria, and set the diadem on his own
head. He also gathered certain mercenary soldiers together, and entered
into his kingdom, and was joyfully received by all, who delivered
themselves up to him. And when they had taken Autiochus the king, and
Lysias, they brought them to him alive; both which were immediately put
to death by the command of Demetrius, when Antiochus had reigned two
years, as we have already elsewhere related. But there were now many
of the wicked Jewish runagates that came together to him, and with them
Alcimus the high priest, who accused the whole nation, and particularly
Judas and his brethren; and said that they had slain all his friends,
and that those in his kingdom that were of his party, and waited for his
return, were by them put to death; that these men had ejected them out
of their own country, and caused them to be sojourners in a foreign
land; and they desired that he would send some one of his own friends,
and know from him what mischief Judas's party had done.

2. At this Demetrius was very angry, and sent Bacchides, a friend of
Antiochus Epiphanes, [25] a good man, and one that had been intrusted
with all Mesopotamia, and gave him an army, and committed Alcimus the
high priest to his care; and gave him charge to slay Judas, and those
that were with him. So Bacchides made haste, and went out of Antioch
with his army; and when he was come into Judea, he sent to Judas and his
brethren, to discourse with them about a league of friendship and peace,
for he had a mind to take him by treachery. But Judas did not give
credit to him, for he saw that he came with so great an army as me