nothing on their
side, but did great execution on the others, as fighting from such an
elevation, they drove them out of the adjoining houses, and immediately
set them on fire, whereupon the flame spread itself over the whole city,
and burnt it all down. This happened by reason of the closeness of
the houses, and because they were generally built of wood. So the
Antioehians, when they were not able to help themselves, nor to stop
the fire, were put to flight. And as the Jews leaped from the top of
one house to the top of another, and pursued them after that manner, it
thence happened that the pursuit was so very surprising. But when the
king saw that the Antiochians were were busy in saving their children
and their wives, and so did not fight any longer, he fell upon them in
the narrow passages, and fought them, and slew a great many of them,
till at last they were forced to throw down their arms, and to deliver
themselves up to Demetrius. So he forgave them this their insolent
behavior, and put an end to the sedition; and when he had given rewards
to the Jews out of the rich spoils he had gotten, and had returned them
thanks, as the cause of his victory, he sent them away to Jerusalem to
Jonathan, with an ample testimony of the assistance they had afforded
him. Yet did he prove an ill man to Jonathan afterward, and broke the
promises he had made; and he threatened that he would make war upon him,
unless he would pay all that tribute which the Jewish nation owed to the
first kings [of Syria]. And this he had done, if Trypho had not hindered
him, and diverted his preparations against Jonathan to a concern for his
own preservation; for he now returned out of Arabia into Syria, with the
child Antiochus, for he was yet in age but a youth, and put the diadem
on his head; and as the whole forces that had left Demetrius, because
they had no pay, came to his assistance, he made war upon Demetrius, and
joining battle with him, overcame him in the fight, and took from him
both his elephants and the city Antioch.

4. Demetrius, upon this defeat, retired into Cilicia; but the child
Antiochus sent ambassadors and an epistle to Jonathan, and made him his
friend and confederate, and confirmed to him the high priesthood, and
yielded up to him the four prefectures which had been added to Judea.
Moreover, he sent him vessels and cups of gold, and a purple garment,
and gave him leave to use them. He also presented him with a golden
button