1 and crossed over by night to the tent of Ptolemy, intending single-handedly to kill him and thereby end the war.
3But Dositheus, known as the son of Drimylus, a Jew by birth who later changed his customs and abandoned the ancestral traditions, had led the king away and arranged that a certain insignificant man should sleep in the tent, and so it turned out that this man incurred the punishment meant for the king.
4A fierce battle ensued, and when matters were turning out rather in favor of Antiochus, Arsinoë went to the troops with wailing and tears, her locks all disheveled, and exhorted them to defend themselves and their children and wives bravely, promising to give them each two minas of gold if they won the battle.
5And so it came about that the enemy was routed in the action, and many captives also were taken.
6Now that he had foiled the plot, Ptolemy decided to visit the neighboring cities and encourage them.
7 no one there had stopped him.
14And someone answered thoughtlessly that it was wrong to place any significance in that.
15“But since this has happened,” the king said, “why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?”
Jewish Resistance to Ptolemy16 and filled the streets with groans and lamentations.
19 prepared for wedded union and, neglecting proper modesty, in a disorderly rush flocked together in the city.
20Mothers and nurses abandoned even newborn children here and there, some in houses and some in the streets, and without a backward look they crowded together at the most high temple.
21 they resorted to the same posture of supplication as the others.
24Meanwhile, the crowd, as before, was engaged in prayer,
25 resulted in an immense uproar,
29 preferred death to the profanation of the place.
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