| II Maccabees 5:11
| Now when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would forsake the alliance: whereupon departing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,
| Alliance with him, or refuse to submit. (Haydock) --- The enterprise of Jason, and the account of their rejoicing, made him form this judgment. --- Arms. Josephus (B.[Jewish Wars?] 1:1., and vi. p. 929) says the Jews came to meet him, and that he besieged and took the city. But (Antiquities 12:7.) he asserts that his partisans opened the gates without fighting. How shall we reconcile these things!
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