36. for making the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and for erecting a high barrier between the citadel and the city, to separate it from the city and isolate it, so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell.
37. The people therefore gathered together to build up the city, for part of the wall of the eastern valley had collapsed. And Jonathan repaired the quarter called Chaphenatha.
38. Simon likewise built up Adida in the Shephelah, and fortified it by installing gates and bars.
39. Then Trypho sought to become king of Asia, assume the diadem, and do violence to King Antiochus.
40. But he was afraid that Jonathan would not permit him, but would fight against him. Looking for a way to seize and kill him, he set out and came to Beth-shan.
41. Jonathan marched out to meet him with forty thousand picked fighting men and came to Beth-shan.
42. But when Trypho saw that Jonathan had arrived with a large army he was afraid to do him violence.
43. Instead, he received him with honor, introduced him to all his friends, and gave him presents. He also ordered his friends and soldiers to obey him as they would himself.
44. Then he said to Jonathan: “Why have you put all these people to so much trouble when we are not at war?
45. Now pick out a few men to stay with you, send the rest to their homes, and then come with me to Ptolemais. I will hand it over to you together with other strongholds and the remaining troops, as well as all the officials; then I will turn back and go home. That is why I came here.”
46. Jonathan trusted him and did as he said. He dismissed his troops, and they returned to the land of Judah.
47. But he kept with him three thousand men, of whom he left two thousand in Galilee while one thousand accompanied him.
48. Then as soon as Jonathan entered Ptolemais, the people of Ptolemais closed the gates and seized him; all who had entered with him, they killed with the sword.
49. Then Trypho sent soldiers and cavalry to Galilee and the Great Plain to destroy all Jonathan’s men.
50. These, upon learning that Jonathan had been captured and killed along with his companions, encouraged one another and went out in close formation, ready to fight.
51. As their pursuers saw that they were ready to fight for their lives, they turned back.