42
And Demetrius sent this message back to Jonathan: "Not only will I do these things for you and your nation, but I will confer great honor on you and your nation, if I find an opportunity.
43
Now then you will do well to send me men who will help me, for all my troops have revolted."
44
So Jonathan sent three thousand stalwart men to him at Antioch, and when they came to the king, the king rejoiced at their arrival.
45
Then the people of the city assembled within the city, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand, and they wanted to kill the king.
46
But the king fled into the palace. Then the people of the city seized the main streets of the city and began to fight.
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