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Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away, and
let them
quake at their destruction:
Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and
let all those that know thy name praise thee with
thanksgiving.
And sent
letters unto
Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:
While these
letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from
Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,
Now when
Judas came near the
brook, he caused the
scribes of the people to remain by the
brook: unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but
let all come to the battle.
Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying,
Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and none shall do you any
hurt; we will only pass through on foot:
howbeit they would not open unto him.
Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.
Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their nation;
Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.
Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and
let him go and see what
havock he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and
let him
punish them with all them that aid them.
Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.
Be
avenged of this man and his host, and
let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.
Nevertheless unto them that remained he said,
Let us arise and go up against our enemies, if
peradventure we may be able to fight with them.
But they
dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able:
let us now rather save our lives, and
hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.
Then
Judas said, God
forbid that I should do this thing, and
flee away from them: if our time be come,
let us die
manfully for our brethren, and
let us not
stain our honour.
Then
Jonathan said to his company,
Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:
Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent
letters privily to his adherents in
Judea, that they should take
Jonathan and those that were with him:
howbeit they could not, because their counsel was known unto them.
For said he, Let us first make peace with him, before he join with Alexander against us:
Then came
Jonathan to Jerusalem, and read the
letters in the
audience of all the people, and of them that were in the tower:
Upon this he wrote a letter, and sent it unto him, according to these words, saying,
Let Jerusalem also be holy and free, with the borders thereof, both from tenths and tributes.
And concerning the three governments that are added to
Judea from the country of Samaria,
let them be joined with
Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, nor bound to obey other authority than the high priest’s.
And
whosoever they be that
flee unto the temple at Jerusalem, or be within the
liberties hereof, being indebted unto the king, or for any other matter,
let them be at liberty, and all that they have in my realm.
Now therefore
let us make a league of
amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.
Now therefore, if thou trustest in thine own strength, come down to us into the plain field, and there let us try the matter together: for with me is the power of the cities.
Whereupon he sent ambasadors unto king
Demetrius, saying, Come,
let us make a league
betwixt us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander hath, and thou shalt reign in thy father’s kingdom:
So the king consented, and wrote
letters unto
Jonathan of all these things after this manner:
We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write unto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye might see it.
Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and
let it be delivered unto
Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a conspicuous place.
Grant us peace, and
let the Jews cease from
assaulting us and the city.
He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.
Upon this the Romans gave them
letters unto the governors of every place that they should bring them into the land of
Judea peaceably.
And this is the copy of the
letters which
Jonathan wrote to the Lacedemonians:
There were
letters sent in times past unto Onias the high priest from
Darius, who reigned then among you, to
signify that ye are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten
doth specify.
At which time Onias
entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably, and received the
letters, wherein declaration was made of the league and friendship.
We commanded them also to go unto you, and to
salute and to deliver you our
letters concerning the renewing of our
brotherhood.
And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.
Then all the heathen that were round about then sought to destroy them: for said they, They have no captain, nor any to help them: now therefore
let us make war upon them, and take away their
memorial from among men.
Wherefore now send an hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will let him go.
And look who are meet among you to be in our court,
let then be
enrolled, and
let there be peace
betwixt us.
And this is the copy of the
letters that the Lacedemonians sent; The rulers of the Lacedemonians, with the city, unto Simon the high priest, and the elders, and priests, and residue of the people of the Jews, our brethren, send
greeting:
Moreover
Antiochus son of
Demetrius the king sent
letters from the isles of the sea unto Simon the priest and prince of the Jews, and to all the people;
And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be free; and all the armour that thou hast made, and fortresses that thou hast built, and keepest in thine hands, let them remain unto thee.
And if anything be, or shall be, owing to the king,
let it be
forgiven thee from this time forth for
evermore.
In the mean season came Numenius and his company from Rome, having letters to the kings and countries; wherein were written these things:
He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.
Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver them that serve among the heathen, look upon them that are
despised and
abhorred, and
let the heathen know that thou art our God.
But
let this that we at spoken be for a
warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the
idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.
But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore
despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the
letter underwritten, containing the form of a
supplication, after this manner:
Now they that were with Simon, being led with
covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and
let some of them escape.
For there were
letters written unto the Jews from
Lysias to this effect:
Lysias unto the people of the Jews sendeth
greeting:
And the
letter of the king unto the nation of the Jews was after this manner: King
Antiochus sendeth
greeting unto the council, and the rest of the Jews:
The Romans also sent unto them a
letter containing these words: Quintus Memmius and
Titus Manlius, ambassadors of the Romans, send
greeting unto the people of the Jews.
Moreover
Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he
besought with much craft to
let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews’ parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.
So when he had
assured them with many words that he would restore them without
hurt, according to the agreement, they
let him go for the saving of their brethren.
And through the might of thine arm
let those be
stricken with terror, that come against thy holy people to
blaspheme. And he ended thus.
And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to
let that day pass without
solemnity, but to
celebrate the
thirtieth day of the
twelfth month, which in the
Syrian tongue is called
Adar, the day before Mardocheus’ day.