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It seemed also good to us to receive the shield from them.
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If, therefore, there be any pestilent fellows who have fled from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their own law.
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The same things wrote he likewise unto Demetrius the king, and Attalus, to Ariarathes, and Arsaces,
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and to all the countries and to Sampsames, and the Lacedemonians, and to Delos, and Myndos, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and Rhodes, and Phaselis, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.
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And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.
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So Antiochus the king encamped against Dor the second day, assaulting it continually and making engines, by which means he shut in Trypho, that he could neither go out nor in.
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At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him, silver also and gold and much armor.
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Nevertheless he would not receive them, but broke all the covenants which he had made with him before, and became estranged from him.
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Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazara, with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.
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We thought it good, therefore, to write unto the kings and countries that they should do them no harm nor fight against them, their cities or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them. The borders thereof ye have laid waste and done great hurt in the land, and gotten the dominion of many places within my kingdom.