1 Maccabees 15:24-28
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24 And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
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25 So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day, assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.
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26 At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him; silver also, and gold, and much armour.
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27 Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.
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28 Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.