9. Fight you our battles, and all that you shall say to us, that will we do.
10. And he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.
11. And he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a great host, to Joppa: and he cast out them that were therein, and abode there in it
12. And Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a mighty host to enter into the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him in ward.
13. But Simon encamped at Adida, over against the plain.
14. And Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, and he sent ambassadors to him, saying,
15. It is for money which Jonathan your brother owed to the king’s treasure, by reason of the offices which he had, that we hold him fast.
16. And now send a hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is set at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will set him at liberty.
17. And Simon knew that they spoke to him deceitfully; and he sends the money and the children, lest perhaps he should procure to himself great hatred of the people,
18. and they should say, Because I sent him not the money and the children, he perished.
19. And he sent the children and the hundred talents. And he dealt falsely, and did not set Jonathan at liberty.
20. And after this Tryphon came to invade the land, and destroy it, and he went round about by the way that leads to Adora: and Simon and his army marched over against him to every place, wherever he went.