8 And they responded with a loud voice, saying: "You are our leader in place of Judas and of Jonathan, your brother.
9 Fight our battles, and we will do whatever you tell us to do."
10 And so, gathering together all the men of war, he accelerated the completion of all the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it all around.
11 And he sent Jonathan, the son of Absalom, and with him a new army, into Joppa, and he cast out those who were in it, and he himself remained there.
12 And Trypho moved from Ptolemais, with a great army, to come into the land of Judah, and Jonathan was with him in custody.
13 But Simon took up a position at Addus, opposite the face of the plains.
14 And when Trypho realized that Simon rose up in the place of his brother, Jonathan, and that he would be joining in battle with him, he sent messengers to him,