21
Now the men in the citadel kept sending envoys to Trypho urging him to come to them by way of the wilderness and to send them food.
22
So Trypho got all his cavalry ready to go, but that night a very heavy snow fell, and he did not go because of the snow. He marched off and went into the land of Gilead.
23
When he approached Baskama, he killed Jonathan, and he was buried there.
24
Then Trypho turned back and departed to his own land.
25
And Simon sent and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him in Modein, the city of his fathers.
26
All Israel bewailed him with great lamentation, and mourned for him many days.
27
And Simon built a monument over the tomb of his father and his brothers; he made it high that it might be seen, with polished stone at the front and back.
28
He also erected seven pyramids, opposite one another, for his father and mother and four brothers.
29
And for the pyramids he devised an elaborate setting, erecting about them great columns, and upon the columns he put suits of armor for a permanent memorial, and beside the suits of armor carved ships, so that they could be seen by all who sail the sea.
30
This is the tomb which he built in Modein; it remains to this day.
31
Trypho dealt treacherously with the young king Antiochus; he killed him