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However, on entering the towns, Ptolemy stationed troops as a garrison in each one.

When he reached Azotus, he was shown the burnt-out temple of Dagon, Azotus and its outlying areas demolished, corpses strewn everywhere, and the charred remains of those burned by Jonathan in the fighting and stacked up in heaps along his route. In an attempt to turn the king against Jonathan, they explained to him what Jonathan had done, but the king said nothing.

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