16. While Ptolemy reached the peak of his power, Alexander fled to Arabia to find protection,
17. but an Arab named Zabdiel cut off his head and sent it to Ptolemy.
18. Two days later Ptolemy himself died, and the troops he had left in the fortresses were then killed by the local citizens.
19. So in the year 167 Demetrius the Second became king.
20. About that time Jonathan gathered the men of Judea to attack the fort in Jerusalem. They built many siege-platforms to use in the attack.
21. But some traitorous Jews who hated their own nation went to King Demetrius the Second and told him that Jonathan was laying siege to the fort in Jerusalem.