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making themselves masters of the whole country by their determination and perseverance, despite its great distance from their own; of the kings who came from the ends of the earth to attack them, only to be crushed by them and overwhelmed with disaster, and of others who paid them annual tribute; (1 Maccabees 8, 4)
while Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who had advanced to attack them with a hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very large army, had also suffered defeat at their hands; (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
But where their friends and those who relied on them were concerned, they had always stood by their friendship. They had subdued kings far and near, and all who heard their name went in terror of them. (1 Maccabees 8, 12)
The two kings met in battle. Alexander's army was routed, and Demetrius pursued him and defeated his troops. (1 Maccabees 10, 49)
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)
Jonathan made his way in state to Ptolemais and met the two kings; he gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many gifts, and made a favourable impression on them. (1 Maccabees 10, 60)
'In the past, a letter was sent to Onias, the high priest, from Areios, one of your kings, stating that you are indeed our brothers, as the copy subjoined attests. (1 Maccabees 12, 7)
'We ourselves, however, have had many trials and many wars, the neighbouring kings making war on us. (1 Maccabees 12, 13)
'King Demetrius to Simon, high priest and Friend of Kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greetings. (1 Maccabees 13, 36)
No enemy was left in the land to fight them, the very kings of those times had been crushed. (1 Maccabees 14, 13)
'I now, therefore, confirm in your favour all remissions of taxes granted to you by the kings my predecessors, as well as the waiving of whatever presents they may have conceded. (1 Maccabees 15, 5)
Numenius and his companions, meanwhile, arrived from Rome, bringing letters addressed to various kings and states, in the following terms: (1 Maccabees 15, 15)
