1. Then the king of Egypt gathered forces as numerous as the sands of the seashore, and many ships; and he sought by deceit to take Alexander’s kingdom and add it to his own.
2. He set out for Syria with peaceful words, and the people in the cities opened their gates to welcome him, as King Alexander had ordered them to do, since Ptolemy was his father-in-law.
3. But when Ptolemy entered the cities, he stationed a garrison of troops in each one.
4. As they neared Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon destroyed by fire, Azotus and its suburbs demolished, corpses lying about, and the charred bodies of those burned in the war, for they had heaped them up along his route.
5. They told the king what Jonathan had done in order to denigrate him; but the king said nothing.
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 and then returned to Jerusalem.