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1 Maccabees 11:59 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He made his brother Simon governor from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt. "

1 Maccabees 11:59

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57 The young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan, saying, “I confirm to you the high priesthood, and appoint you over the four districts, and to be one of the king’s friends.”

58 He sent to him golden vessels and furniture for the table, and gave him permission to drink in golden vessels, and to be clothed in purple, and to have a golden buckle.

59 He made his brother Simon governor from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.

60 Jonathan went out and took his journey beyond the river and through the cities. All the forces of Syria gathered themselves to him to be his allies. He came to Ascalon, and the people of the city met him honorably.

61 He departed from there to Gaza, and the people of Gaza shut him out. So he besieged it and burned its pasture lands with fire, and plundered them.

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1 Maccabees 14:17

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"For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to be chancellor and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia."

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"The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold."

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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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