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and there king Alexander met him and took his daughter Cleopatra to wife, and they held the wedding with great magnificence, as kings will. (1 Maccabees 10, 58)
King Alexander had sent word to Jonathan, he should come and keep tryst with him; (1 Maccabees 10, 59)
It chanced that certain Israelites, pestilent fellows of the traitorous party, came there to bring charges against him. But to these the king would not listen; (1 Maccabees 10, 61)
he would have Jonathan change his garments, and go clad in purple, and when this was done, a seat he must have beside the king himself. (1 Maccabees 10, 62)
he himself was loaded with honours, enrolled among the king’s chief friends, and made a prince, with a share in the governance of the kingdom. (1 Maccabees 10, 65)
More than ever, when he heard of it, did king Alexander heap honours upon him; (1 Maccabees 10, 88)
And now Ptolemy, king of Egypt, levied a great army, countless as sand on the beach, and a fleet besides; to win Alexander’s realm his treacherous design was, and add it to his own. (1 Maccabees 11, 1)
To Syria he came, full of fair speeches, and all the towns opened their gates to welcome him; such welcome Alexander himself had prescribed; was not the king of Egypt his father-in-law? (1 Maccabees 11, 2)
And never a town king Ptolemy entered, but he left a guard of soldiers there. (1 Maccabees 11, 3)
and told him, with malicious intent, how it was Jonathan’s doing; but no word said king Ptolemy. (1 Maccabees 11, 5)
As for Jonathan, he went to meet the king at Joppe, with a deal of pomp; there they greeted one another, and passed the night, (1 Maccabees 11, 6)
nor would Jonathan return to Jerusalem till he had escorted the king as far as the river called Eleutherus. (1 Maccabees 11, 7)
