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• When Jonathan and the people heard these proposals, they put no faith in them and refused to accept them, remembering what great wrongs Demetrius had done to Israel and how cruelly he had oppressed them. (1 Maccabees 10, 46)

• The two kings met in battle. Alexander's army was routed, and Demetrius pursued him and defeated his troops. (1 Maccabees 10, 49)

• He continued the battle with vigour until sunset. Demetrius himself, however, was killed the same day. (1 Maccabees 10, 50)

• A number of scoundrels, the pest of Israel, combined to denounce him, but the king paid no attention to them. (1 Maccabees 10, 61)

• Jonathan pursued him as far as Azotus, where the armies joined battle. (1 Maccabees 10, 78)

• When he reached Azotus he was shown the burnt-out temple of Dagon, with Azotus and its suburbs in ruins, corpses scattered here and there, and the charred remains of those whom Jonathan had burnt to death in the battle, piled into heaps along his route. (1 Maccabees 11, 4)

• but when he heard the news, he advanced on his rival to give battle, while Ptolemy for his part also took the field, met him with a strong force and routed him. (1 Maccabees 11, 15)

• When Jonathan heard this, he gave orders for the siege to continue; he then selected a deputation from the elders of Israel and the priests, and took the deliberate risk (1 Maccabees 11, 23)

• Jonathan, meanwhile, sent to ask King Demetrius to withdraw the garrisons from the Citadel in Jerusalem and from the other fortresses, since they were constantly fighting Israel. (1 Maccabees 11, 41)

• Jonathan went out to intercept him, with forty thousand picked men in battle order, and arrived at Beth-Shean. (1 Maccabees 12, 41)

• These, concluding that he had been taken and had perished with his companions, encouraged one another, marching with closed ranks and ready to give battle, (1 Maccabees 12, 50)

• All reached Judaea safe and sound, and there they lamented Jonathan and his companions, being very frightened indeed; all Israel was plunged into mourning. (1 Maccabees 12, 52)