17. Zabdiel the Arabian cut off Alexander’s head and sent it to Ptolemy.
18. But three days later King Ptolemy himself died, and his troops in the strongholds were killed by the inhabitants of the strongholds.
19. Thus Demetrius became king in the one hundred and sixty-seventh year.
20. In those days Jonathan gathered together the people of Judea to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and they set up many siege engines against it.