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1 Maccabees 11:7-9
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7 Jonathan accompanied the king as far as the river called Eleutherus[a] and then returned to Jerusalem.

8 And so King Ptolemy took possession of the cities along the seacoast as far as Seleucia by the sea,[b] plotting evil schemes against Alexander all the while. 9 He sent ambassadors to King Demetrius, saying: “Come, let us make a covenant with each other; I will give you my daughter whom Alexander has married, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:7 Eleutherus: two hundred miles north of Joppa, in the second century B.C. the northern limit of Coelesyria.
  2. 11:8 Seleucia by the sea: at the mouth of the Orontes, the port city of Antioch.
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