4
When he approached Azotus, they showed him the burnt-out temple of Dagon, and Azotus and its suburbs destroyed, and the corpses lying about, and the charred bodies of those whom Jonathan had burned in the war, for 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 pomp, and they greeted one another and spent the night there.
7
And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river called Eleutherus; then he returned to Jerusalem.
8
So King Ptolemy gained control of the coastal cities as far as Seleucia by the sea, and he kept devising wicked designs against Alexander.
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