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20 And so we have appointed you today to be the high priest of your nation; you are to be called the king’s friend” (and he sent him a purple robe and a golden crown) “and you are to take our side and keep friendship with us.”

21 So Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of the one hundred and sixtieth year,[a] at the feast of tabernacles, and he recruited troops and equipped them with arms in abundance. 22 When Deme′trius heard of these things he was grieved and said,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Maccabees 10:21 152 b.c.

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