48 Jonathan and his soldiers then jumped into the river and started swimming toward the other side, but the enemy troops did not go after them.
49 That day Bacchides lost about 1,000 men.
50 Bacchides returned to Jerusalem and started building high walls and strong gates for some of the towns of Judea, including Emmaus, Beth-Horon, Bethel, Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, and the fortress at Jericho.
51 He stationed soldiers in these towns, and they caused trouble for the Jews.
52 Bacchides also strengthened the fortress in Jerusalem and the towns of Beth-Zur and Gazara. He put soldiers and food supplies in these strongholds.
53 Then he took the sons of the Jewish leaders as hostages and locked them up in the Jerusalem fortress.
54 In the second month of the year 153 of the Syrian Kingdom, Alcimus the high priest ordered his followers to destroy the wall in the temple courtyard that prophets of earlier times had said should be built.