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ABOUT the same time Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, fled away from
Rome, and took Tripoli, a city of Syria, and set the diadem on his own
head. He also gathered certain mercenary soldiers together, and entered
into his kingdom, and was joyfully received by all, who delivered themselves
up to him. And when they had taken Autiochus the king, and Lysias, they
brought them to him alive; both which were immediately put to death by
the command of Demetrius, when Antiochus had reigned two years, as we have
already elsewhere related. But there were now many of the wicked Jewish
runagates that came together to him, and with them Alcimus the high priest,
who accused the whole nation, and particularly Judas and his brethren;
and said that they had slain all his friends, and that those in his kingdom
that were of his party, and waited for his return, were by them put to
death; that these men had ejected them out of their own country, and caused
them to be sojourners in a foreign land; and they desired that he would
send some one of his own friends, and know from him what mischief Judas's
party had done.
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