8. And they responded with a loud voice, saying: "You are our leader in place of Judas and of Jonathan, your brother.
9. Fight our battles, and we will do whatever you tell us to do."
10. And so, gathering together all the men of war, he accelerated the completion of all the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it all around.
11. And he sent Jonathan, the son of Absalom, and with him a new army, into Joppa, and he cast out those who were in it, and he himself remained there.