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They had vanquished Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight the Romans with one hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very strong army. But he was defeated (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
but hearing of it, the Romans sent a single general against them. They killed a great number of Greeks, took their women and children, destroyed their fortresses and enslaved them to this day. (1 Maccabees 8, 10)
After this had happened, Jonathan and his brother Simon were told that the Yambrites were celebrating a solemn wedding and were escorting the bride, a daughter of one of the magnates, from Nadabath with great pomp. (1 Maccabees 9, 37)
At a certain moment they heard a confusion of sounds; then they saw a great deal of baggage. The bride groom, his friends and brothers came straight to them with tambourines, musical instruments and many weapons. (1 Maccabees 9, 39)
After a while, he died in great agony. (1 Maccabees 9, 56)
They were afraid when they heard that the king had authorized Jonathan to organize a great army, (1 Maccabees 10, 8)
This is why in the seventh month of the year one hundred and sixty (152 B.C.), on the occasion of the feast of Tabernacles, Jonathan put on the sacred vestments. He also recruited troops and manufactured a great quantity of arms. (1 Maccabees 10, 21)
When Jonathan and the people heard such proposals, they did not believe or accept them, for they remembered the great wrongs Demetrius had done to Israel and the ill-treatment to which he had subjected them. (1 Maccabees 10, 46)
King Alexander assembled a great army and encamped opposite Demetrius. (1 Maccabees 10, 48)
Alexander went to meet him, and Ptolemy gave him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her wedding with great splendor as kings do. (1 Maccabees 10, 58)
So Jonathan went to Ptolemais with great pomp and met the two kings. Then he gave them and their Friends much silver and gold and many other gifts. (1 Maccabees 10, 60)
The king did him great honor and enrolled him among his first Friends, and appointed him general and governor. (1 Maccabees 10, 65)
