4. But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned with fire, and Azotus and the suburbs thereof pulled down, and the bodies cast abroad, and them that had been burned, whom he burned in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way.
5. And they told the king what things Jonathan had done, that they might cast blame on him: and the king held his peace.
6. And Jonathan met the king with pomp at Joppa, and they saluted one another, and they slept there.
7. And Jonathan went with the king as far as the river that is called Eleutherus, and returned to Jerusalem.
8. But king Ptolemy became master of the cities upon the sea coast, to Selucia which is by the sea, and he devised evil devices concerning Alexander.
9. And he sent ambassadors to king Demetrius, saying, Come, let us make a covenant with one another, and I will give you my daughter whom Alexander has, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom;
10. for I have repented that I gave my daughter to him, for he sought to kill me.
11. And he cast blame on him, because he coveted his kingdom.
12. And taking his daughter from him, he gave her to Demetrius, and was estranged from Alexander, and their enmity was openly seen.
13. And Ptolemy entered into Antioch, and put on himself the diadem of Asia; and he put two diadems upon his head, the diadem of Egypt and that of Asia.
14. But king Alexander was in Cilicia at that season, because they of those parts were in revolt.
15. And Alexander heard of it, and he came against him in war: and Ptolemy led forth his host, and met him with a strong force, and put him to flight.
16. And Alexander fled into Arabia, that he might be sheltered there; but king Ptolemy was exalted.
17. And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it to Ptolemy.
18. And king Ptolemy died the third day after, and they that were in his strongholds were slain by them that were in the strongholds.
19. And Demetrius reigned in the hundred and threescore and seventh year.
20. In those days Jonathan gathered together them of Judaea, to take the citadel that was at Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it.
21. And certain that hated their own nation, men that transgressed the law, went to the king, and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.