self, and the men seing him, passed through after him.
7 Then he deuided his men, and set the horse∣men in the middes of the fotemen.
8 For their enemies horsemen were verie ma∣nie: but when they blewe the trumpets, Cē∣debeus fled with his hoste, whereof manie were slayne, and the remnant gate them to the forteresse.
9 Then was Iudas Iohns brother woūded: but Iohn followed after them, til he came to Ce∣dron, which (Cendeleus) had buylt.
10 Also thei fled vnto the towres, that were in the fields of Azotus, and those did (Iohn) bur ne with fyre: thus were there slaine two thou sand men of them: so he returned peaceably into the land of Iuda.
11 ¶ Now in the field of Iericho was Ptolemeus the sonne of Abubus made captaine, and he had abundance of siluer and golde.
12 [For he had maried the daughter of the hie Priest]
13 Therefore he waxed proude in his minde, and thoght to rule the land, & thoght to slay Simon and his sonnes by deceit.
14 Now as Simon went about thorowe the ci ties of the countrey, & studieth carefully for them, he came downe to Iericho with Matta thias, and Iudas his sonnes in the hundreth, seuentie and seuen yere, in the eleuenth mo∣neth, which is the moneth Sabat.
15 Then (the sonne) of Abubus receiued them by treason into a litle holde, called Dochus, which he had buylte, where he made them a great banket, and had hid men there.
16 So when Simon and his sonnes had made good chere, Ptolemeus stode vp with his mē, and toke their weapons, and entred in to Si∣mon in the banket house, & slewe him with his two sonnes, and certeine of his seruants.
17 Whereby he committed a great vilenie, and recompensed euil for good.
18 Then wrote Ptolemeus these things & sent to the King, that he might send him an hoste to helpe him, and so wolde deliuer him the countrey with the cities.
19 He sent other men also vnto Gazara, to take Iohn, and sent letters vnto the captaines to come to him, and he wolde giue them siluer and golde and rewardes,
20 And to Ierusalém he sent other to take it, and the mountaine of the Temple.
21 But one 〈◊〉〈◊〉 before, and tolde Iohn an Ga∣zara, that his father, and his brethren were slaine, and that (Ptolemeus) had sent to slay him.
22 When he heard this, he was sore astonished and laid hāds of them that were come to slay him, and slewe them: for he knewe that they went about to kill him.
23 Concerning other things of Iohn, bothe of his warres, and of his noble actes [wherein he behaued him self manfully] of the buyl∣ding of walles which he made, and other of his dedes,
24 Beholde, they are writen in the chronicles of his priesthode, from the time, that he was made high Priest after his father.