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1 Maccabees 10:51-53
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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— 53 for I met him in battle, defeated him and his army, and now occupy the throne of his kingdom—

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  1. 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.
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