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And Gorgias took five thousand men and one thousand select horses, and the army departed in the night so as to pounce upon the army of the Judeans and attack them suddenly. And the people from the citadel were guides for him. And Judas heard, and he and the warriors departed …
And they rose against them from the ambush and killed them, and many casualties fell, and those who remained fled into the mountains, and they took back all their weapons.
And he said to Jonathan, “Why did you smite all these people, with battle not having come to us? And now, send them to their homes, and choose for yourself a few men who will be with you. And come with me to Ptolemais, and I will give over it to you and the remaining strongholds and the many soldiers …
And the son of Abubus welcomed them with deceit into the small fortification called Dok, which he had built. And he made for them a great feast and hid men there. And when Simon and his sons had become drunk, Ptolemy and those with him stood and took their weapons and rushed to attack Simon …
For, pretending to enter into marriage with her, both Antiochus and those friends with him arrived in the place for the sake of taking the great wealth in the temple as a dowry. And the priests of Nanea set them forth, and that one went with a few others into the enclosure of the shrine; …