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We are now only making use of this opportunity to recover our ancestral heritage.
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As for Joppa and Gezer, which you claim, we will give you 6,000 pounds of silver, in spite of the fact that the people of those cities have done great harm to our nation." Athenobius made no reply,
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but he returned to the king in a rage. When he told the king what Simon had said, and reported on the splendor of Simon's court and all that he had seen, the king became violently angry.
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In the meantime, Trypho had boarded a ship and escaped to the town of Orthosia.
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King Antiochus appointed Cendebeus as commander of the coastal area, provided him with infantry and cavalry,
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and gave him orders to move against Judea. He also ordered him to rebuild the town of Kedron and fortify its gates, so that he could fight against the Jewish people. The king himself continued to pursue Trypho.
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Cendebeus then came to Jamnia and began to harass the Jews by invading Judea, capturing people, and murdering them.
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He rebuilt Kedron and stationed some cavalry and infantry units there, so that they could make attacks and patrol the roads of Judea, as the king had ordered.