1 Maccabees 11:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ But King Ptol′emy died three days later, and his troops in the strongholds were killed by the inhabitants of the strongholds. ¹⁹ So Deme′trius became king in the one hundred and sixty-seventh year.^[a]

Jonathan’s Diplomacy

²⁰ In those days Jonathan assembled the men of Judea to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and he built many engines of war to use against it.