73
Therefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee unto."
74
So when Jonathan heard these words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind and, choosing ten thousand men, he went out of Jerusalem where Simon his brother met him to help him.
75
And he pitched his tents against Joppa; but they of Joppa shut him out of the city, because Apollonius had a garrison there.
76
Then Jonathan laid siege against it, whereupon they of the city let him in out of fear; and so Jonathan won Joppa.
77
When Apollonius heard thereof, he took three thousand horsemen with a great host of footmen, and went to Azotus as though he would pass through it, and thereupon drew forth into the plain, because he had a great number of horsemen in whom he put his trust.
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