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Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt. (1 Maccabees 2, 53)
So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt: (1 Maccabees 3, 32)
Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt with a message to this effect: (1 Maccabees 10, 51)
So Ptolemee went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came unto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year: (1 Maccabees 10, 57)
And the king of Egypt gathered together a great host, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships, and went about through deceit to get Alexander's kingdom, and join it to his own. (1 Maccabees 11, 1)
Then Ptolemee entered into Antioch, where he set two crowns upon his head, the crown of Asia, and of Egypt. (1 Maccabees 11, 13)
His brother Simon also he made captain from the place called The ladder of Tyrus unto the borders of Egypt. (1 Maccabees 11, 59)
The brethren, the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of Judea, wish unto the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace: (2 Maccabees 1, 1)
In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt: (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of king Ptolemeus Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem: (2 Maccabees 4, 21)
About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt: (2 Maccabees 5, 1)
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
