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1 Maccabees 11:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

1 Maccabees 11:5

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

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.

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

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

7 Jonathan went with the king as far as the river that is called Eleutherus, then returned to Jerusalem.

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1 Maccabees 10:46

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"Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credence to them, and didn’t accept them, because they remembered the great evil which he had done in Israel, and that he had afflicted them very severely."

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Jeremiah 38:26

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"then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”"

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1 Maccabees 10:62

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

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2 Samuel 21:7

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"But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul."

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Jeremiah 36:20

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"They went in to the king into the court, but they had laid up the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe. Then they told all the words in the hearing of the king."

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1 Samuel 20:1

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"David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”"

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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 11:6

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

1 Maccabees 11:7

"Jonathan went with the king as far as the river that is called Eleutherus, then returned to Jerusalem."

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