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Young Antiochus then wrote as follows to Jonathan: 'I confirm you in the high-priesthood and set you over the four districts and appoint you one of the Friends of the King.' (1 Maccabees 11, 57)
'Areios king of the Spartans, to Onias the high priest, greetings. (1 Maccabees 12, 20)
Trypho's ambition was to become king of Asia, assume the crown, and overpower King Antiochus. (1 Maccabees 12, 39)
Now Trypho, betraying the trust of young King Antiochus, put him to death. (1 Maccabees 13, 31)
He also sent a delegation to King Demetrius, to get him to grant the province a remission, since all Trypho did was to despoil. (1 Maccabees 13, 34)
King Demetrius replied to his request in a letter framed as follows: (1 Maccabees 13, 35)
'King Demetrius to Simon, high priest and Friend of Kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greetings. (1 Maccabees 13, 36)
In the year 172, King Demetrius assembled his forces and marched into Media to raise help for the fight against Trypho. (1 Maccabees 14, 1)
When Arsaces king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius had entered his territory, he sent one of his generals to capture him alive. (1 Maccabees 14, 2)
'It has fallen to him in his time to expel the foreigners from his country, including those in the City of David in Jerusalem, who had converted it into a citadel for their own use, from which they would sally out to defile the surroundings of the sanctuary and to violate its sacred character; (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
'And since King Demetrius has heard that the Romans call the Jews their friends, allies and brothers, (1 Maccabees 14, 38)
Antiochus son of King Demetrius addressed a letter from the Mediterranean Isles to Simon, priest and ethnarch of the Jews, and to the whole nation; (1 Maccabees 15, 1)
