1 Maccabees 10:68-70

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶⁸ When Alexander the king heard of it, he was greatly grieved and returned to Antioch. ⁶⁹ And Deme′trius appointed Apollo′nius the governor of Coelesyria, and he assembled a large force and encamped against Jam′nia. Then he sent the following message to Jonathan the high priest:

⁷⁰ “You are the only one to rise up against us, and I have become a laughingstock and reproach because of you. Why do you assume authority against us in the hill country?