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1 Maccabees 11:6-8
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6 Jonathan met the king with pomp at Joppa, and they greeted each other and spent the night there. 7 Jonathan accompanied the king as far as the river called Eleutherus[a] and then returned to Jerusalem.

8 And so King Ptolemy took possession of the cities along the seacoast as far as Seleucia by the sea,[b] plotting evil schemes against Alexander all the while.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:7 Eleutherus: two hundred miles north of Joppa, in the second century B.C. the northern limit of Coelesyria.
  2. 11:8 Seleucia by the sea: at the mouth of the Orontes, the port city of Antioch.
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