1 Maccabees 10:1-6

1 In the one hundred sixtieth year Alexander Epiphanes, son of Antiochus, landed and occupied Ptolemais. They welcomed him, and there he began to reign.

2 When King Demetrius heard of it, he assembled a very large army and marched out to meet him in battle.

3 Demetrius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him;

4 for he said to himself, "Let us act first to make peace with him before he makes peace with Alexander against us,

5 for he will remember all the wrongs that we did to him and to his brothers and his nation."

6 So Demetrius gave him authority to recruit troops, to equip them with arms, and to become his ally; and he commanded that the hostages in the citadel should be released to him.

Footnotes

• [a]. 152 b.c.
• [b]. Gk [them]
• [c]. Gk [he]