8 Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebe´us and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant got them to the stronghold.
9 At that time was Judas John's brother wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Gede´rah, which Cendebe´us had built.
10 So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Ashdod; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.
11 Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptol´emy the son of Abu´bus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold:
12 for he was the high priest's son-in-law.
13 Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.
14 Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathi´as and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sebat: