When Maccabeus was told what had happened, he called together the leaders of the people and charged those men with having sold their brothers for money by letting their enemies go free to fight against them.
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19so Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, together with Zacchaeus and those with him — enough to lay siege to them — and went off himself to places where he was urgently needed. 20But Simon’s men, out of love of money, let themselves be bought by some of those in the towers; they accepted seventy thousand drachmas and let some of them slip away. 21When Maccabeus was told what had happened, he called together the leaders of the people and charged those men with having sold their brothers for money by letting their enemies go free to fight against them. 22He then executed these men for having turned traitor, and immediately took the two towers. 23Prospering in arms in everything he put his hand to, he destroyed over twenty thousand in the two strongholds.
