34. In truth, since we have the opportunity, we claim the inheritance of our fathers.
35. And as to Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they brought a great scourging on the people and our country. For these, we will give one hundred talents." And Athenobius did not respond a word to him.
36. But, returning with anger to the king, he reported to him these words, and the glory of Simon, and all that he had seen. And the king became angry with a great anger.
37. But Trypho fled by ship to Orthosia.
38. And the king appointed Cendebeus as commander of the seacoast, and he gave him an army of foot soldiers and horsemen.
39. And he commanded him to move with his camp against the face of Judea. And he commanded him to build up Kedron, and to barricade the gates of the city, and to make war against the people. But the king pursued Trypho.
40. And Cendebeus passed through to Jamnia, and he began to provoke the populace, and to trample Judea, and to take the people captive, and to execute, and to build up Kedron.