31. Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus, and killed him,
32. and reigned in his stead, and put on himself the diadem of Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.
33. And Simon built the strongholds of Judaea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars; and he laid up food in the strongholds.
34. And Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end he should give the country an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to plunder.