1 Maccabees 11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Maccabees 11Ptolemy Invades Syria

1 father-in-law.

3But when Ptolemy entered the towns he stationed forces as a garrison in each town.

4 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.

5They also told the king what Jonathan had done, to throw blame on him, but the king kept silent.

6 because he coveted his kingdom.

12So he took his daughter away from him and gave her to Demetrius. He was estranged from Alexander, and their hostility became apparent.

13 the latter, with all the region bordering them, were added to Judea from Samaria. To all those who offer sacrifice in Jerusalem we have granted release from the royal taxes that the king formerly received from them each year, from the crops of the land and the fruit of the trees.

35 over to him, to become king in place of his father. He also reported to Imalkue what Demetrius had done and told of the hatred that the troops of Demetrius had for him, and he stayed there many days.

41 had done him but treated him very harshly.

Trypho Seizes Power

54 and he fled and was routed.

56 and gained control of Antioch.

57 brother Simon governor from the Ladder of Tyre to the borders of Egypt.

Campaigns of Jonathan and Simon

60 and routed them, and they fled.

73Josh 20.7; Tob 1.2When his men who were fleeing saw this, they returned to him and joined him in the pursuit as far as Kadesh, to their camp, and there they encamped.

74v 38As many as three thousand of the foreigners fell that day. And Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.

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