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1 Maccabees 10:60 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He went with pomp to Ptolemais, and met the two kings. He gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many gifts, and found favor in their sight. "

1 Maccabees 10:60

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

59 King Alexander wrote to Jonathan, that he should come to meet him.

60 He went with pomp to Ptolemais, and met the two kings. He gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many gifts, and found favor in their sight.

61 Some malcontents out of Israel, men who were transgressors of the law, gathered together against him to complain against him; but the king paid no attention to them.

62 The king commanded that they take off Jonathan’s garments and clothe him in purple, and they did so.

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1 Maccabees 11:24

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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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