1 Maccabees 10:61-71

1. 61 At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to accuse him: but the king would not hear them.

2. 62 Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off his garments, and clothe him in purple: and they did so.

3. 63 And he made him sit by himself, and said into his princes, Go with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.

4. 64 Now when his accusers saw that he was honored according to the proclamation, and clothed in purple, they fled all away.

5. 65 So the king honoured him, and wrote him among his chief friends, and made him a duke, and partaker of his dominion.

6. 66 Afterward Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and gladness.

7. 67 Furthermore in the; hundred threescore and fifth year came Demetrius son of Demetrius out of Crete into the land of his fathers:

8. 68 Whereof when king Alexander heard tell, he was right sorry, and returned into Antioch.

9. 69 Then Demetrius made Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his general, who gathered together a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and sent unto Jonathan the high priest, saying,

10. 70 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?

11. 71 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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