1 Maccabees 10:2

2 When Demetrius the king heard of it, he assembled a very large army and marched out to meet him in battle.

1 Maccabees 10:2 In-Context

1 In the one hundred and sixtieth year Alexander Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus, landed and occupied Ptolemais. They welcomed him, and there he began to reign.

2 When Demetrius the king heard of it, he assembled a very large army and marched out to meet him in battle.

3 And Demetrius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him;

4 for he said, "Let us act first to make peace with him before he makes peace with Alexander against us,

5 for he will remember all the wrongs which we did to him and to his brothers and his nation."