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.