16
So Alexander fled into Arabia to find protection there, and King Ptolemy was triumphant.
17
Zabdiel the Arab cut off the head of Alexander and sent it to Ptolemy.
18
But King Ptolemy died three days later, and his troops in the strongholds were killed by the inhabitants of the strongholds.
19
So Demetrius became king in the one hundred sixty-seventh year.
20
In those days Jonathan assembled the Judeans to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and he built many engines of war to use against it.
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