When Jonathan, who was Judas\'s brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people; and he corroborated his authority by preserving his friendship with the Romans.
Yet was not all this sufficient for his security; for the tyrant Trypho, who was guardian to Antiochus\'s son, laid a plot against him; and besides that, endeavored to take off his friends, and caught Jonathan by a wile,.
He also made a league with Antiochus the son.
When Jonathan, who was Judas\'s brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people; and he corroborated his authority by preserving his friendship with the Romans
