38 Then the king made Cendebe´us captain of the sea coast, and gave him an host of footmen and horsemen,
39 and commanded him to remove his host toward Judea; also he commanded him to build up Gede´rah, and to fortify the gates, and to war against the people; but as for the king himself, he pursued Tryphon.
40 So Cendebe´us came to Jabneh, and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and slay them.
41 And when he had built up Gede´rah, he set horsemen there, and an host of footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.