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When Deme′trius the king heard of it, he assembled a very large army and marched out to meet him in battle. And Deme′trius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him; for he said, “Let us act first to make peace with him[a] before he makes peace with Alexander against us,

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  1. 1 Maccabees 10:4 Gk them

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