1 And in the hundred and seventy and second year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help, that he might fight against Tryphon.
2 And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was come into his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
3 and he went and struck the army of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces; and he put him in ward.
4 And the land had rest all the days of Simon: and he sought the good of his nation; and and his authority and his glory was well-pleasing to them all his days.
5 And amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea;
6 and he enlarged the borders of his nation, and got possession of the country;