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And they accused the people to the king, saying,
Judas and his brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of our own
land.
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.
So they departed, and came with a great power into the
land of
Judea, where they sent messengers to
Judas and his brethren with peaceable words
deceitfully.
And unto him resorted all such as troubled the people, who, after they had
gotten the
land of Juda into their power, did much
hurt in Israel.
Thus the land of Juda was in rest a little while.
And that they, having knowledge thereof sent against them a certain captain, and fighting with them
slew many of them, and carried away
captives their wives and their children, and
spoiled them, and took possession of their
lands, and pulled down their strong holds, and brought them to be their servants unto this day:
Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews, by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far from them,
If therefore they
complain any more against thee, we will do them justice, and fight with thee by sea and by
land.
Furthermore, when
Demetrius heard the Nicanor and his host were slain in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the
land of
Judea the second time, and with them the chief strength of his host:
Now when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he returned to the king:
whereupon the
land of
Judea was in rest two years.
When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken
aforetime out of the
land of
Judea, he returned and went his way into his own
land, neither came he any more into their borders.
And from that which appertaineth unto me to receive for the third part or the seed, and the half of the fruit of the trees, I release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken of the
land of
Judea, nor of the three governments which are added
thereunto out of the country of Samaria and
Galilee, from this day forth for
evermore.
Moreover I freely set at liberty every one of the Jews, that were carried
captives out of the
land of
Judea into any part of my kingdom, and I will that all my officers
remit the tributes even of their cattle.
And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strong holds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath commanded in the
land of
Judea.
As for
Ptolemais, and the
land pertaining
thereto, I give it as a free gift to the sanctuary at Jerusalem for the necessary expences of the sanctuary.
Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou
didst return into the
land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.
Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that take our part, and they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to to flight in their own land.
After this, when king
Demetrius saw that the
land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers
hated him.
So king
Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the
land was quiet before him.
Upon this the Romans gave them letters unto the governors of every place that they should bring them into the
land of
Judea peaceably.
He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.
So
Jonathan believing him did as he
bade him, and sent away his host, who went into the
land of
Judea.
Now when Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a great host to
invade the
land of
Judea, and destroy it,
So Tryphon removed from Ptolemaus with a great power to
invade the
land of
Judea, and
Jonathan was with him in ward.
And after this came Tryphon to
invade the
land, and destroy it, going round about by the way that leadeth unto Adora: but Simon and his host marched against him in every place,
wheresoever he went.
Afterward Tryphon returned and went into his own land.
And he reigned in his
stead, and crowned himself king of Asia, and brought a great
calamity upon the
land.
Moreover Simon chose men, and sent to king
Demetrius, to the end he should give the
land an
immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to
spoil.
As for the
land of
Judea, that was quiet all the days of Simon; for he sought the good of his nation in such wise, as that
evermore his authority and honour pleased them well.
He made peace in the
land, and Israel
rejoiced with great joy:
Neither was there any left in the
land to fight against them:
yea, the kings themselves were overthrown in those days.
In the hundred
threescore and
fourteenth year went
Antiochus into the
land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came together unto him, so that few were left with Tryphon.
And when he had compassed the city round about, and joined ships close to the town on the sea side, he
vexed the city by
land and by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in.
The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great
hurt in the
land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.
Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither taken other men’s
land, nor
holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had
wrongfully in possession a certain time.
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.
The brethren, the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the
land of
Judea, wish unto the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace:
What time as
Demetrius reigned, in the hundred
threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that
Jason and his company revolted from the holy
land and kingdom,
As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of every
land under heaven into the holy place: for he hath delivered us out of great troubles, and hath
purified the place.
Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:
So when
Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all
haste unto Antiochia,
weening in his pride to make the
land navigable, and the sea passable by foot: such was the
haughtiness of his mind.
To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to expectation, or if any
tidings were brought that were
grievous, they of the
land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not be troubled: