62 Afterward, when they of Gaza made supplication unto Jonathan, he made peace with them, and took the sons of their chief men for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem, and passed through the country unto Damascus.
63 Now when Jonathan heard that Deme´tri-us' princes were come to Kedesh, which is in Galilee, with a great power, purposing to remove him out of the country,
64 he went to meet them, and left Simon his brother in the country.
65 Then Simon encamped against Beth–zur, and fought against it a long season, and shut it up:
66 but they desired to have peace with him, which he granted them, and then put them out from thence, and took the city, and set a garrison in it.
67 As for Jonathan and his host, they pitched at the water of Chin´nereth, from whence betimes in the morning they got them to the plain of Hazor.
68 And, behold, the host of strangers met them in the plain, who, having laid men in ambush for him in the mountains, came themselves over against him.