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• The envoys made their way to Rome, entered the Senate and said, 'Jonathan the high priest and the Jewish nation have sent us to renew your treaty of friendship and alliance with them as before.' (1 Maccabees 12, 3)

• The following is the copy of the letter Jonathan wrote to the Spartans: (1 Maccabees 12, 5)

• 'Jonathan the high priest, the senate of the nation, the priests and the rest of the Jewish people to the Spartans their brothers, greetings. (1 Maccabees 12, 6)

• Jonathan learned that Demetrius' generals had returned with a larger army than before to make war on him. (1 Maccabees 12, 24)

• At sunset, Jonathan ordered his men to keep watch with their weapons at hand, in readiness to fight at any time during the night, and posted advance guards all round the camp. (1 Maccabees 12, 27)

• On learning that Jonathan and his men were ready to fight, the enemy took fright and, with quaking hearts, lit fires in their bivouac and decamped. (1 Maccabees 12, 28)

• Jonathan and his men, watching the glow of the fires, were unaware of their withdrawal until morning, (1 Maccabees 12, 29)

• and although Jonathan pursued them, he failed to overtake them, for they had already crossed the river Eleutherus. (1 Maccabees 12, 30)

• So Jonathan wheeled round on the Arabs called Zabadaeans, beat them and plundered them; (1 Maccabees 12, 31)

• Jonathan, on his return, called a meeting of the elders of the people and decided with them to build fortresses in Judaea (1 Maccabees 12, 35)

• He was apprehensive that Jonathan might not allow him to do this, and might even make war on him, so he set out and came to Beth-Shean, in the hopes of finding some pretext for having him arrested and put to death. (1 Maccabees 12, 40)

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