turbance. And when the captains had
thus done, those that were prepared to accuse Jonathan, and who bore him
ill-will, when they saw the honor that was done him by proclamation, and
that by the king's order, ran away, and were afraid lest some mischief
should befall them. Nay, king Alexander was so very kind to Jonathan,
that he set him down as the principal of his friends.

3. But then, upon the hundred and sixty-fifth year, Demetrius, the son
of Demetrius, came from Crete with a great number of mercenary soldiers,
which Lasthenes, the Cretian, brought him, and sailed to Cilicia. This
thing cast Alexander into great concern and disorder when he heard it;
so he made haste immediately out of Phoenicia, and came to Antioch, that
he might put matters in a safe posture there before Demetrius should
come. He also left Apollonius Daus [7] governor of Celesyria, who coming
to Jamnia with a great army, sent to Jonathan the high priest, and told
him that it was not right that he alone should live at rest, and with
authority, and not be subject to the king; that this thing had made him
a reproach among all men, that he had not yet made him subject to the
king. "Do not thou therefore deceive thyself, and sit still among the
mountains, and pretend to have forces with thee; but if thou hast any
dependence on thy strength, come down into the plain, and let our armies
be compared together, and the event of the battle will demonstrate
which of us is the most courageous. However, take notice, that the most
valiant men of every city are in my army, and that these are the very
men who have always beaten thy progenitors; but let us have the battle
in such a place of the country where we may fight with weapons, and
not with stones, and where there may be no place whither those that are
beaten may fly."

4. With this Jonathan was irritated; and choosing himself out ten
thousand of his soldiers, he went out of Jerusalem in haste, with his
brother Simon, and came to Joppa, and pitched his camp on the outside of
the city, because the people of Joppa had shut their gates against him,
for they had a garrison in the city put there by Apollonius. But when
Jonathan was preparing to besiege them, they were afraid he would take
them by force, and so they opened the gates to him. But Apollonius, when
he heard that Joppa was taken by Jonathan, took three thousand horsemen,
and eight thousand footmen and came to Ashdod; and removing thence, he
made his