1 Maccabees 10:50-59
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50 And he continued the battle very sore until the sun went down: and that day was Demetrius slain.
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51 Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt with a message to this effect:
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52 Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the throne of my progenitors, and have gotten the dominion, and overthrown Demetrius, and recovered our country;
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53 For after I had joined battle with him, both he and his host was discomfited by us, so that we sit in the throne of his kingdom:
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54 Now therefore let us make a league of amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.
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55 Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.
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56 And now will I do to thee, as thou hast written: meet me therefore at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; for I will marry my daughter to thee according to thy desire.
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57 So Ptolemee went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came unto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year:
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58 Where king Alexander meeting him, he gave unto him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the manner of kings is.
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59 Now king Alexander had written unto Jonathan, that he should come and meet him.