24
And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
25
So Antiochus the king encamped against Dor the second day, assaulting it continually and making engines, by which means he shut in Trypho, that he could neither go out nor in.
26
At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver also and gold and much armor.
27
Nevertheless he would not receive them, but broke all the covenants which he had made with him before, and became estranged from him.
28
Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazara, with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.
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