1. And in the hundred and seventy and second year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media, to get him help, that he might fight against Tryphon.
2. And Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was come into his borders, and he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
3. and he went and struck the army of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces; and he put him in ward.
4. And the land had rest all the days of Simon: and he sought the good of his nation; and and his authority and his glory was well-pleasing to them all his days.
5. And amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea;
6. and he enlarged the borders of his nation, and got possession of the country;
7. and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.
8. And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
9. The ancient men sat in the streets, they communed all of them together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.