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1 Maccabees 10:56 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Now I will do to you as you have written, but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; and I will join with you, even as you have said.” "

1 Maccabees 10:56

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54 now also let’s make friends with one another. Give me now your daughter as my wife. I will be joined with you, and will give both you and her gifts worthy of you.”

55 Ptolemy the king answered, saying, “Happy is the day you returned to the land of your ancestors and sat on the throne of their kingdom.

56 Now I will do to you as you have written, but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; and I will join with you, even as you have said.”

57 So Ptolemy went out of Egypt, himself and Cleopatra his daughter, and came to Ptolemais in the one hundred sixty-second year.

58 King Alexander met him, and he gave him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with great pomp, as kings do.

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1 Maccabees 12:45

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"Now send them away to their homes, but choose for yourself a few men who shall be with you, and come with me to Ptolemais, and I will give it to you, and the rest of the strongholds and the rest of the forces, and all the king’s officers. Then I will turn around and depart; for this is why I came.”"

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1 Maccabees 11:22

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"He heard, and was angry, but when he heard it, he set out immediately, and came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan, that he should not besiege it, and that he should meet him and speak with him at Ptolemais with all speed."

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1 Kings 1:14

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"Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”"

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Genesis 28:15

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"Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”"

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Daniel 10:20

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"Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come."

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1 Maccabees 10:1

"In the one hundred sixtieth year, Alexander Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus, went up and took possession of Ptolemais. They received him, and he reigned there."

1 Maccabees 10:2

"King Demetrius heard about this, and he gathered together exceedingly great forces, and went out to meet him in battle."

1 Maccabees 10:3

"Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan with words of peace, so as to honor him."

1 Maccabees 10:4

"For he said, “Let’s go beforehand to make peace with them, before he makes peace with Alexander against us;"

1 Maccabees 10:5

"for he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and to his kindred and to his nation.”"

1 Maccabees 10:6

"So he gave him authority to gather together forces, and to provide weapons, and that he should be his ally. He also commanded that they should release the hostages that were in the citadel to him."

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