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• 'You are entirely alone in rising against us, and now I find myself ridiculed and reproached on your account. Why do you use your authority to our disadvantage in the mountains? (1 Maccabees 10, 70)

• If you are so confident in your forces, come down now to meet us on the plain and let us take each other's measure there; on my side I have the strength of the towns. (1 Maccabees 10, 71)

• Ask and learn who I am and who the others supporting us are. You will hear that you cannot stand up to us, since your ancestors were twice routed on their own ground, (1 Maccabees 10, 72)

• nor will you now be able to withstand the cavalry or so great an army on the plain, where there is neither rock, nor stone, nor refuge of any kind.' (1 Maccabees 10, 73)

• On hearing Apollonius' words, Jonathan's spirit was roused; he picked ten thousand men and left Jerusalem, and his brother Simon joined him with reinforcements. (1 Maccabees 10, 74)

• He drew up his forces outside Joppa, the citizens having shut him out, since Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa. When they began the attack, (1 Maccabees 10, 75)

• Now, Apollonius had left a thousand horsemen in concealment behind them. (1 Maccabees 10, 79)

• Jonathan knew of this enemy position behind him; the horsemen surrounded his army, firing their arrows into his men from morning till evening. (1 Maccabees 10, 80)

• But the troops stood firm, as Jonathan had ordered. Once the cavalry was exhausted, (1 Maccabees 10, 81)

• The enemy losses, counting those who fell by the sword and those burnt to death, totalled about eight thousand men. (1 Maccabees 10, 85)

• The king of Egypt then assembled an army as numerous as the sands of the seashore, with many ships, and set out to take possession of Alexander's kingdom by a ruse and add it to his own kingdom. (1 Maccabees 11, 1)

• He set off for Syria with protestations of peace, and the people of the towns opened their gates to him and came out to meet him, since King Alexander's orders were to welcome him, Ptolemy being his father-in-law. (1 Maccabees 11, 2)