23
We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are our's, and our's are your's We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.
24
Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius' princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than afore,
25
He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.
26
He sent spies also unto their tents, who came again, and told him that they were appointed to come upon them in the night season.
27
Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth sentinels round about the host.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.