1. And Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a mighty host to come into the land of Judah, and destroy it utterly.
2. And he saw that the people trembled and was in great fear; and he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together;
3. and he encouraged them, and said to them, You⌃ yourselves know all the things that I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, and the battles and the distresses which we have seen:
4. by reason hereof all my brethren have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone.