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King Alexander now mustered large forces and advanced against Demetrius. (1 Maccabees 10, 48)
Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt, with this message: (1 Maccabees 10, 51)
King Ptolemy replied as follows: 'Happy the day when you returned to the land of your ancestors and ascended their royal throne! (1 Maccabees 10, 55)
King Alexander went to meet him, and Ptolemy gave him the hand of his daughter Cleopatra and celebrated her wedding in Ptolemais with great magnificence, as kings do. (1 Maccabees 10, 58)
King Alexander then wrote to Jonathan to come and meet him. (1 Maccabees 10, 59)
A number of scoundrels, the pest of Israel, combined to denounce him, but the king paid no attention to them. (1 Maccabees 10, 61)
In fact, the king commanded that Jonathan should be divested of his own garments and clothed in the purple, which was done. (1 Maccabees 10, 62)
The king then seated him by his side and said to his officers, 'Escort him into the centre of the city and proclaim that no one is to bring charges against him on any count; no one is to molest him for any reason.' (1 Maccabees 10, 63)
The king did him the honour of enrolling him among the First Friends, and appointed him commander-in-chief and governor-general. (1 Maccabees 10, 65)
When King Alexander heard of it he was plunged into gloom, and retired to Antioch. (1 Maccabees 10, 68)
In the event, when King Alexander heard what had happened, he awarded Jonathan further honours: (1 Maccabees 10, 88)
he sent him the golden brooch, of the kind customarily presented to the King's Cousins, and gave him proprietary rights over Ekron and the land adjoining it. (1 Maccabees 10, 89)