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to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the citadel and the city to separate it from the city, in order to isolate it so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell.
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So they gathered together to rebuild the city; part of the wall on the valley to the east had fallen, and he repaired the section called Chaphenatha.
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Simon also built Adida in the Shephelah; he fortified it and installed gates with bolts.
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Then Trypho attempted to become king in Asia and put on the crown, and to raise his hand against King Antiochus.
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He feared that Jonathan might not permit him to do so, but might make war on him, so he kept seeking to seize and kill him, and he marched out and came to Beth-shan.
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Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand picked warriors, and he came to Beth-shan.
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When Trypho saw that he had come with a large army, he was afraid to raise his hand against him.
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So he received him with honor and commended him to all his Friends, and he gave him gifts and commanded his Friends and his troops to obey him as they would himself.
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Then he said to Jonathan, "Why have you put all these people to so much trouble when we are not at war?
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Dismiss them now to their homes and choose for yourself a few men to stay with you, and come with me to Ptolemais. I will hand it over to you as well as the other strongholds and the remaining troops and all the officials, and will turn around and go home. For that is why I am here."
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Jonathan trusted him and did as he said; he sent away the troops, and they returned to the land of Judah.