c 16:4
So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war
with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that
night at Modin.

1 Mac 16:5
And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the
plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen
came against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.

1 Mac 16:6
So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he
saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he
went first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed
through after him.

1 Mac 16:7
That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the
midst of the footmen: for the enemies' horsemen were very many.

1 Mac 16:8
Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus
and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were
slain, and the remnant gat them to the strong hold.

1 Mac 16:9
At that time was Judas John's brother wounded; but John still
followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus
had built.

1 Mac 16:10
So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus;
wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of
them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land
of Judea in peace.

1 Mac 16:11
Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of
Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold:

1 Mac 16:12
For he was the high priest's son in law.

1 Mac 16:13
Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the
country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against
Simon and his sons to destroy them.

1 Mac 16:14
Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country,
and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he
came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and
Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the
eleventh month, called Sabat:

1 Mac 16:15
Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a
little hold, called Docus, which he had built, made them a great
banquet: howbeit he had hid men there.

1 Mac 16:16
So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely, Ptolemee and
his men rose up, and took their weapons, and came upon Simon
into the banqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and
certain of his servants.

1 Mac 16:17
In which doing he committed a great treachery, and
recompensed evil for good.

1 Mac 16:18
Then Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent