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And he continued the battle very sore until the sun went down: and that day was Demetrius
slain.
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Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt with a message to this
effect:
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Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the throne of my progenitors, and
have gotten the dominion, and overthrown Demetrius, and recovered our country;
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For after I had joined battle with him, both he and his host was discomfited by us, so that we
sit in the throne of his kingdom:
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Now therefore let us make a league of amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife:
and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.
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Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into
the land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.
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And now will I do to thee, as thou hast written: meet me therefore at Ptolemais, that we may
see one another; for I will marry my daughter to thee according to thy desire.
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So Ptolemee went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came unto Ptolemais
in the hundred threescore and second year:
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Where king Alexander meeting him, he gave unto him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated
her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the manner of kings is.
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Now king Alexander had written unto Jonathan, that he should come and meet him.
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Who thereupon went honourably to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings, and gave them
and their friends silver and gold, and many presents, and found favour in their sight.
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At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves
against him, to accuse him: but the king would not hear them.
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Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off his garments, and clothe him in purple:
and they did so.
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And he made him sit by himself, and said into his princes, Go with him into the midst of the
city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man
trouble him for any manner of cause.
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Now when his accusers saw that he was honored according to the proclamation, and clothed
in purple, they fled all away.
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So the king honoured him, and wrote him among his chief friends, and made him a duke, and
partaker of his dominion.
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Afterward Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and gladness.
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Furthermore in the; hundred threescore and fifth year came Demetrius son of Demetrius out
of Crete into the land of his fathers:
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Whereof when king Alexander heard tell, he was right sorry, and returned into Antioch.
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Then Demetrius made Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his general, who gathered together
a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and sent unto Jonathan the high priest, saying,
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