1 Maccabees 11:6

6 Jonathan met the king at Joppa with great ceremony. They greeted each other and spent the night there.

1 Maccabees 11:6 In-Context

4 When he approached Azotus, they showed him that Dagon's temple had been burned. Azotus and its suburbs had been destroyed. Corpses were lying about, the charred bodies of those whom Jonathan had burned in the war. They had piled them in heaps along his route.

5 They also told the king what Jonathan had done to throw blame on him. But the king kept silent.

6 Jonathan met the king at Joppa with great ceremony. They greeted each other and spent the night there.

7 Jonathan went with the king as far as the Eleutherus River, and then he returned to Jerusalem.

8 So King Ptolemy gained control of the coastal cities as far as Seleucia by the sea. He kept devising evil plans against Alexander.