1 Maccabees 11:18

18 King Ptolemy also died the third day after, and those who were in the strongholds were slain by one another.

1 Maccabees 11:18 In-Context

16 So Alexander fled into Arabia, there to be defended, but King Ptolemy was exalted.

17 For Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander's head and sent it unto Ptolemy.

18 King Ptolemy also died the third day after, and those who were in the strongholds were slain by one another.

19 By this means Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and seventh year.

20 At the same time Jonathan gathered together those who were in Judea to take the tower that was in Jerusalem; and he made many engines of war against it.