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1 Maccabees 10:50-52
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 10:50-52
New Catholic Bible
50 The battle raged fiercely until sunset, and Demetrius was killed on that day.
51 Alexander Allies Himself with Egypt.[a] Alexander sent envoys to Ptolemy, the king of Egypt, with this message: 52 “Now that I have returned to my kingdom and taken my seat on the throne of my ancestors and established my rule by crushing Demetrius and thereby gaining control of my country—
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- 1 Maccabees 10:51 The new alliance is ratified in 150 B.C. at Ptolemais, a city that had remained half-Egyptian: the new king of Antioch married Cleopatra, the daughter of the king of Egypt. Cleopatra was about fifteen; she later married Demetrius II and still later his brother Antiochus VII.
