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Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt with a message to this effect:
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"Inasmuch as I have come again to my realm, and am seated on the throne of my progenitors, and have gotten the dominion and overthrown Demetrius and recovered our country
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for after I had joined battle with him, both he and his host were discomfited by us, so that we sit on the throne of his kingdom
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now therefore let us make a league of amity together; and give me now thy daughter for a wife, and I will be thy son-in-law, and will give both thee and her gifts according to thy dignity."
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Then Ptolemy the king gave answer, saying, "Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers and sat on the throne of their kingdom.
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And now will I do for thee as thou hast written. Meet me therefore at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; for I will marry my daughter to thee according to thy desire."
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So Ptolemy went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra; and they came unto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year,
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where King Alexander met him. And Ptolemy gave unto him his daughter Cleopatra and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as is the manner of kings.
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Now King Alexander had written unto Jonathan that he should come and meet him.
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He thereupon went honorably to Ptolemais where he met the two kings, and gave them and their friends silver and gold and many presents, and found favor in their sight.
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At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him to accuse him; but the king would not hear them.