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For Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander's head and sent it unto Ptolemy.
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King Ptolemy also died the third day after, and those who were in the strongholds were slain by one another.
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By this means Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and seventh year.
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At the same time Jonathan gathered together those who were in Judea to take the tower that was in Jerusalem; and he made many engines of war against it.
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Then certain ungodly persons, who hated their own people, went unto the king and told him that Jonathan besieged the tower.
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When he heard of this he was angry; and, immediately removing, he came to Ptolemais and wrote unto Jonathan that he should not lay siege against the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais with great haste.
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Nevertheless Jonathan, when he heard this, commanded to besiege it still. And he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the priests, and put himself in peril;
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and took silver and gold and raiment and divers presents besides, and went to Ptolemais unto the king where he found favor in his sight.
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And though certain ungodly men of the people had made complaints against him,
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yet the king treated him as his predecessors had done before, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,
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and confirmed him in the high priesthood and in all the honors that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his chief friends.