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;
7 and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.
8 And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
9 The ancient men sat in the streets, they communed all of them together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.