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1 Maccabees 11:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it to Ptolemy. "

1 Maccabees 11:17

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15 When Alexander heard of it, he came against him in war. Ptolemy marched out and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.

16 Alexander fled into Arabia, that he might be sheltered there; but King Ptolemy was triumphant.

17 Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it to Ptolemy.

18 King Ptolemy died the third day after, and those who were in his strongholds were slain by the inhabitants of the strongholds.

19 Demetrius became king in the one hundred sixty-seventh year.

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1 Maccabees 11:1

"Then the king of Egypt gathered together great forces, as the sand which is by the sea shore, and many ships, and sought to make himself master of Alexander’s kingdom by deceit, and to add it to his own kingdom."

1 Maccabees 11:2

"He went out into Syria with words of peace, and the people of the cities opened their gates to him and met him; for King Alexander’s command was that they should meet him, because he was his father-in-law."

1 Maccabees 11:3

"Now as he entered into the cities of Ptolemais, he set his forces for a garrison in each city."

1 Maccabees 11:4

"But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned with fire, and Azotus and its pasture lands destroyed, and the bodies cast out, and those who had been burned, whom he burned in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way."

1 Maccabees 11:5

"They told the king what Jonathan had done, that they might cast blame on him; but the king kept silent."

1 Maccabees 11:6

"Jonathan met the king with pomp at Joppa, and they greeted one another, and they slept there."

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