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And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land,
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Then the king’s officers spoke to Mattathi′as as follows: “You are a leader, honored and great in this city, and supported by sons and brothers.
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Then he crossed over against them first, and the whole army followed him. All the Gentiles were defeated before him, and they threw away their arms and fled into the sacred precincts at Car′naim.
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We were happy to serve your father, to live by what he said and to follow his commands.
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The Jews pursued them a day’s journey, from Ad′asa as far as Gazar′a, and as they followed kept sounding the battle call on the trumpets.
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They went to Rome, a very long journey; and they entered the senate chamber and spoke as follows:
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“And concerning the wrongs which King Deme′trius is doing to them we have written to him as follows, ‘Why have you made your yoke heavy upon our friends and allies the Jews?
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When those on the left wing saw that the right wing was crushed, they turned and followed close behind Judas and his men.
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And he wrote a letter and sent it to him, in the following words:
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So he sent a message to them in the following words:
A Letter from Demetrius to Jonathan
“King Deme′trius to the nation of the Jews, greeting.
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Treaty of Ptolemy and Alexander
Then Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptol′emy king of Egypt with the following message:
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And Deme′trius appointed Apollo′nius the governor of Coelesyria, and he assembled a large force and encamped against Jam′nia. Then he sent the following message to Jonathan the high priest:
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The king consented, and wrote a letter to Jonathan about all these things; its contents were as follows:
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Deme′trius the king sent him a favorable reply to this request, and wrote him a letter as follows,
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And what they said we have recorded in our public decrees, as follows, ‘Nume′nius the son of Anti′ochus and Antip′ater the son of Jason, envoys of the Jews, have come to us to renew their friendship with us.
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in As′aramel, in the great assembly of the priests and the people and the rulers of the nation and the elders of the country, the following was proclaimed to us:
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its contents were as follows: “King Anti′ochus to Simon the high priest and ethnarch and to the nation of the Jews, greeting.
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Rome Supports the Jews
Then Nume′nius and his companions arrived from Rome, with letters to the kings and countries, in which the following was written:
