1 Maccabees 11:42-48

1. 42 So Demetrius sent unto Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for thee and thy people, but I will greatly honour thee and thy nation, if opportunity serve.

2. 43 Now therefore thou shalt do well, if thou send me men to help me; for all my forces are gone from me.

3. 44 Upon this Jonathan sent him three thousand strong men unto Antioch: and when they came to the king, the king was very glad of their coming.

4. 45 Howbeit they that were of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of an hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have slain the king.

5. 46 Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

6. 47 Then the king called to the Jews for help, who came unto him all at once, and dispersing themselves through the city slew that day in the city to the number of an hundred thousand.

7. 48 Also they set fire on the city, and gat many spoils that day, and delivered the king.

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