¹⁷ Then Judas said to his brother Simon, “Choose your men and go and rescue your kindred in Galilee; Jonathan my brother and I will go to Gilead.”^(A)

Simon Takes Command

13 Simon heard that Trypho had assembled a large army to invade the land of Judah and destroy it,^(A)

²² He appointed his brothers also, Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, each to command a division, putting fifteen hundred men under each.^(A)