1 Maccabees · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get him help to fight against Tryphone.
2But when Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was entered within his borders, he sent one of his princes to take him alive:
3Who went and struck the host of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, by whom he was put in ward.
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