1 Maccabees 11:37-39

New Catholic Bible

³⁷ Be sure, therefore, to have a copy of them made and given to Jonathan, so that it may be displayed in a conspicuous place on the holy mountain.’ ”

³⁸ Jonathan’s Forces Save Demetrius. When King Demetrius saw that the country was at peace under his rule and that there was no opposition to him, he dismissed his forces, sending all of them to their own homes except for the foreign troops that he had recruited from the islands of the nations. As a result, all the soldiers who had served under his predecessors hated him. ³⁹ Trypho, one of Alexander’s former supporters, observed that all the soldiers were grumbling against Demetrius. He went to see Imalkue the Arab, who was bringing up Antiochus, Alexander’s young son,