24
And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
25
So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day, assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.
26
At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him; silver also, and gold, and much armour.
27
Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.
28
Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.