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1 Maccabees 11:42 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying, “I will not only do this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honor you and your nation, if I find an opportunity. "

1 Maccabees 11:42

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40 and urgently insisted to him that he should deliver him to him, that he might reign in his father’s place. He told him all that Demetrius had done, and the hatred with which his forces hated him; and he stayed there many days.

41 Now Jonathan sent to King Demetrius, that he should remove the troops of the citadel from Jerusalem, and the troops who were in the strongholds; for they fought against Israel continually.

42 Demetrius sent to Jonathan, saying, “I will not only do this for you and your nation, but I will greatly honor you and your nation, if I find an opportunity.

43 Now therefore you shall do well if you send me men who will fight for me; for all my forces have revolted.”

44 So Jonathan sent him three thousand valiant men to Antioch. They came to the king, and the king was glad at their coming.

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1 Maccabees 10:3

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"But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”"

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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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