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.
21
Then certain ungodly persons, who hated their own people, went unto the king and told him that Jonathan besieged the tower.
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