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Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off Jonathan's garments and clothe him in purple, and they did so.
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And he made him sit by himself, and said unto his princes, "Go with him into the midst of the city and make proclamation that no man complain against him about any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause."
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Now when his accusers saw that he was honored according to the proclamation and clothed in purple, they all fled away.
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So the king honored him, and wrote him among his chief friends, and made him a duke and partaker of his dominion.
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Afterward Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and gladness.
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Furthermore, in the hundred threescore and fifth year came Demetrius, son of Demetrius, out of Crete into the land of his fathers.
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When King Alexander heard of it, he was very sorry and returned into Antioch.
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Then Demetrius made Apollonius, the governor of Coelesyria, his general, who gathered together a great host and encamped in Jamnia, and sent unto Jonathan the high priest, saying,
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"Thou alone liftest up thyself against us, and I am laughed to scorn for thy sake, and reproached. And why dost thou vaunt thy power against us in the mountains?
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Now therefore, if thou trustest in thine own strength, come down to us into the plain field, and there let us try the matter together; for with me is the power of the cities.
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Ask and learn who I am, and the rest who take our part. And they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to stand before our face; for thy fathers have been twice put to flight in their own land.