63
Then Jonathan heard that the officers of Demetrius had come to Kadesh in Galilee with a large army, intending to remove him from office.
64
He went to meet them, but left his brother Simon in the country.
65
Simon encamped before Beth-zur and fought against it for many days and hemmed it in.
66
Then they asked him to grant them terms of peace, and he did so. He removed them from there, took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it.
67
Jonathan and his army encamped by the waters of Gennesaret. Early in the morning they marched to the plain of Hazor,
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