1 Machabees 11:42-45 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

42. And Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying: I will not only do this for thee, and for thy people, but I will greatly honour thee, and thy nation, when opportunity shall serve.

43. Now therefore thou shalt do well if thou send me men to help me: for all my army is gone from me.

44. And Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch: and they came to the king, and the king was very glad of their coming.

45. And they that were of the city assembled themselves together, to the number of a hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have killed the king.

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