1 Maccabees 10:68-70

New Catholic Bible

⁶⁸ When King Alexander learned of this, he was greatly disturbed, and he returned to Antioch. ⁶⁹ Demetrius appointed Apollonius as governor of Coelesyria,^[a] and the latter assembled a large force, encamped at Jamnia, and sent the following message to Jonathan the high priest: ⁷⁰ “You are the only one who has seen fit to rise up against us. Because of you, I have been assailed by ridicule and brought into disgrace. Why do you flaunt your authority against us in the hill country?