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And Trypho captured the elephants and gained control of Antioch.
57
Then the young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying, "I confirm you in the high priesthood and set you over the four districts and make you one of the friends of the king."
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And he sent him gold plate and a table service, and granted him the right to drink from gold cups and dress in purple and wear a gold buckle.
59
Simon his brother he made governor from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.
60
Then Jonathan set forth and traveled beyond the river and among the cities, and all the army of Syria gathered to him as allies. When he came to Askalon, the people of the city met him and paid him honor.
61
From there he departed to Gaza, but the men of Gaza shut him out. So he beseiged it and burned its suburbs with fire and plundered them.
62
Then the people of Gaza pleaded with Jonathan, and he made peace with them, and took the sons of their rulers as hostages and sent them to Jerusalem. And he passed through the country as far as Damascus.
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.
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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.
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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.