13
Then Ptolemy entered Antioch and put on the crown of Asia. Thus he put two crowns on his head, the crown of Egypt and that of Asia.
14
Now King Alexander was in Cilicia at that time, because the people of that region were in revolt.
15
When Alexander heard of it, he came against him in battle. Ptolemy marched out and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.
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.
21
But certain renegades who hated their nation went to the king and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.
22
When he heard this he was angry, and as soon as he heard it he set out and came to Ptolemais; and he wrote Jonathan not to continue the siege, but to meet him for a conference at Ptolemais as quickly as possible.
23
When Jonathan heard this, he gave orders to continue the siege. He chose some of the elders of Israel and some of the priests, and put himself in danger,