1 Maccabees 11:5

1 Maccabees 11:5 Context

³Now as Ptolomee entred into the cities, he set in euery one of them a garison of souldiers to kepe it. ⁴And when he came neere to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt, and Azotus, and the suburbs thereof that were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad, and them that he had burnt in the battell, for they had made heapes of them by the way where he should passe. ⁵Also they told the king whatsoeuer Ionathan had done, to the intent he might blame him: but the king helde his peace. ⁶Then Ionathan met the king with great pompe at Ioppa, where they saluted one another, and lodged. ⁷Afterward Ionathan when he had gone with the king to the riuer called Eleutherus, returned againe to Ierusalem.

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