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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MACCABEES:
CONTAINING A RECORD OF EVENTS FROM THE TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES INTO GREEK UNDER PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, (B.C. 277,) TO THE DEATH OF HEROD’s TWO SONS, IN THE FIFTH OR SIXTH YEAR BEFORE CHRIST.
CHAPTER XVIIIa
B.C. 160
The history of Jonathan the son of Mattathias.
And Jonathan succeeded his brother, and he went to Jordan with a small number of men; which when Bacchides heard of, he marched to him with a large army. And when Jonathan saw him, his men swam over Jordan; and Bacchides and his army followed them and surrounded them. But Jonathan rushed on Bacchides and as the men gave way to Jonathan, he and his company went out from the midst of them and departed to Beershebab: and his brother Simeon joined him, and they abode there and they repaired whatever of the fortifications had fallen, and they fortified themselves there.
But Bacchides marched to them, and besieged (B.C 158) them: and Jonathan and his brother, and they which were with them, went out to him by night, and slew great numbers of his army, and burned the battering rams and engines of war; and his army was dispersed, and Bacchides fled into the desert. And Jonathan and Simeon, and the men who were with him, pursued and took him. Who, when he saw Jonathan, knew that his death was wherefore he proclaimed peace with Jonathan, and swore that he would never more make war upon him, and moreover, that he would restore the whole of the captives which he had taken of the army of Judas. And Jonathan gave him his hand and departed from him: nor after this was there any more war between them. And not long after thisc , Jonathan died, and his brother Simeon succeeded him.
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