15 When Alexander heard what Ptolemy had done, he attacked him, but Ptolemy's large army defeated Alexander and forced him to retreat.
16 After Ptolemy won this important victory, Alexander found a hiding place in Arabia,
17 but Zabdiel the Arab chopped off Alexander's head and sent it to Ptolemy.
18 Three days later, Ptolemy himself died, and the people in his fortresses killed the soldiers he had stationed there.
19 In the year 167 of the Syrian Kingdom, Demetrius the Second became king.
20 A little later, Jonathan gathered an army in Judea. He built a lot of weapons to break through city walls and then attacked the fortress in Jerusalem.
21 King Demetrius the Second found out about the attack from some Jews who really hated the other Jews.