1 Maccabees 10:68-70

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶⁸ And king Alexander heard of it, and was much troubled, and returned to Antioch.

⁶⁹ And king Demetrius made Apollonius his general, who was governor of Celesyria: and he gathered together a great army, and came to Jamnia: and he sent to Jonathan the high priest,

⁷⁰ Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at, and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountains.