15. “I am holding your brother Jonathan under arrest because while he was in office he did not pay his debts to the royal treasury.
16. However, I will release him if you will pay me three tonnes of silver and send two of his sons as hostages to guarantee that he will not revolt against us when he is released.”
17. Although Simon knew that they were deceiving him, he sent for the money and the two sons because he did not want to arouse the hostility of the Jews.
18. He was afraid that they might later say that Jonathan was put to death because Simon would not send the money and the boys.
19. So he did as Trypho had demanded, but Trypho broke his promise and did not release Jonathan.
20. Then Trypho made a move to invade the land and destroy it, circling round by the road to Adora. But Simon and his army moved along facing him wherever he went.
21. The enemy soldiers in the fort in Jerusalem kept sending messengers to Trypho urging him to come to them quickly by way of the desert and to send them supplies.
22. Trypho got all his cavalry ready for the invasion, but that night there was a heavy snowstorm, and he was not able to move up into the hills. So he withdrew and went into Gilead.
23. When he was near Baskama, he had Jonathan put to death and his body was buried there.
24. Then Trypho turned and went back to his own country.
25. Simon had the body of his brother Jonathan brought to Modein, to be buried in the town of their ancestors.
26. Everyone in Israel was in deep sorrow at the loss of Jonathan, and they mourned for him a long time.
27. Over the tomb of his father and his brothers Simon built a high monument that could be seen from a great distance. It was covered on the front and the back with polished stone.
28. He constructed seven pyramids side by side for his father, his mother, and his four brothers.