1 Maccabees 10:59
“Now king Alexander had written vnto Ionathan, that hee should come and meete him.”
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1 Maccabees 10:59 Context
57So Ptolome went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came vnto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second yeere. 58Where king Alexander meeting him, gaue vnto him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the maner of kings is. 59Now king Alexander had written vnto Ionathan, that hee should come and meete him. 60Who thereupon went honourably to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings, and gaue them and their friends siluer and golde, and many presents, and found fauour in their sight. 61At that time certaine pestilent fellowes of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselues against him, to accuse him: but the king would not heare them.
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Now king Alexander had written unto Jonathan, that he should come and meet him.
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