1. And Simon heard that Trypho had gathered together an immense army to come to the land of Judah and to lay waste to it.
2. Seeing that the people were fearful and trembling, he went up to Jerusalem, and he gathered together the people.
3. And exhorting them, he said: "You know what great battles I, and my brothers, and the house of my father, have fought for the laws and for the holy places, and the anguish that we have seen.