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Then Alexander sent messengers to Ptolemy the king of Egypt with the following message: (1 Maccabees 10, 51)
King Ptolemy replied as follows: "Blessed be the day when you returned to the land of your fathers and ascended to their throne! (1 Maccabees 10, 55)
I will without delay do for you as you have proposed. But meet me in Ptolemais. There we shall see one another and I will receive you as my son-in-law as you have requested." (1 Maccabees 10, 56)
The renegades, the pest of Israel, gathered together to accuse Jonathan, but the king paid no attention to them. (1 Maccabees 10, 61)
The king also seated him by his side, and said to his captains: "Go with him into the center of the city and proclaim that no one is to accuse Jonathan under any pretext, and no one is to molest him for any reason." (1 Maccabees 10, 63)
Demetrius took his general Apollonius, the governor of Coele-Syria, who assembled a large force. He encamped at Jamnia and sent the following message to Jonathan, the high priest: (1 Maccabees 10, 69)
"Are you the only one who resists our authority? And am I to be ridiculed because of you? Why do you stand against our authority in your mountains? (1 Maccabees 10, 70)
If you have confidence in your forces, come down to the plain and let us measure each other's strength there, for I have with me the army of the cities. (1 Maccabees 10, 71)
Inquire and find out who I am and who are those who support me. Men will tell you that you cannot resist us, for your fathers were twice defeated on their own land. (1 Maccabees 10, 72)
Nor will you be able to withstand the cavalry and so great an army on the plain, where there are no stones or rocks offering a refuge." (1 Maccabees 10, 73)
When Jonathan heard Apollonius' message, he was greatly aroused. So he left Jerusalem with ten thousand picked men, and his brother Simon came to his help. (1 Maccabees 10, 74)
They encamped near Joppa, but the inhabitants of the city closed the gates to them, as Apollonius had a garrison there. (1 Maccabees 10, 75)