10:70. Saying: Thou alone standest against us, and I am laughed at and reproached, because thou shewest thy power against us in the mountuins. 10:71. Now, therefore, if thou trustest in thy forces, come down to us into the plain, and there let us try one another: for with me is the strength of war. 10:72. Ask, and learn who I am, and the rest that help me, who also say that your foot cannot stand before our face, for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land: 10:73. And now how wilt thou be able to abide the horsemen, and so great an army in the plain, where there is no stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to? 10:74. Now when Jonathan heard the words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind: and he chose ten thousand men, and went out of Jerusalem, and Simon, his brother, met him to help him. 10:75. And they pitched their tents near Joppe, but they shut him out of the city: because a garrison of Apollonius was in Joppe, and he laid siege to it. 10:76. And they that were in the city being affrighted, opened the gates to him: so Jonathan took Joppe. 10:77. And Apollonius heard of it, and he took three thousand horsemen, and a great army. 10:78. And he went to Azotus, as one that was making a journey, and immediately he went forth into the plain: because he had a great number of horsemen, and he trusted in them. And Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, and they joined battle. 10:79. And Apollonius left privately in the camp a thousand horsemen behind them. 10:80. And Jonathan knew that there was an ambush behind him, and they surrounded his army, and cast darts at the people from morning till evening. 10:81. But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and so their horses were fatigued. 10:82. Then Simon drew forth his army, and attacked the legion: for the horsemen were wearied: and they were discomfited by him, and fled. 10:83. And they that were scattered about the plain fled into Azotus, and went into Bethdagon, their idol's temple, there to save themselves. 10:84. But Jonathan set fire to Azotus, and the cities that were round about it, and took the spoils of them and the temple of Dagon: and all them that were fled into it, he burnt with fire. 10:85. So they that were slain by the sword, with them that were burnt, were almost eight thousand men. 10:86. And Jonathan, removed his army from thence and camped against Ascalon: and they went out of the city to meet him with great honour. 10:87. And Jonathan returned into Jerusalem with his people, having many spoils. 10:88. And it came to pass, when Alexander, the king heard these words, that he honoured Jonathan yet more. 10:89. And he sent him a buckle of gold, as the custom is, to be given to such as are of the royal blood. And he gave him Accaron, and all the borders thereof, in possession. 1 Machabees Chapter 11