55. Ptolemy the king replied,Happy was the day on which you returned to the land of your ancestors and took your seat on the throne of their kingdom.
56. Now I will do for you as you wrote, but meet me at Ptolemais so that we may see each other, and I will become your father-in-law, as you have said.
57. So Ptolemy set out from Egypt—he and his daughter Cleopatra—and came to Ptolemais in the year 162.
58. King Alexander met Ptolemy, who gave him his daughter Cleopatra in marriage. He celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with much ceremony, as kings do.
59. King Alexander then wrote to Jonathan to come and meet him.
60. So he went with majestic apparel to Ptolemais and met the two kings. He gave silver and gold and many other gifts to them and their chief political advisors, and he found favor with them.
61. A group of troublemakers from Israel gathered together to slander him, but the king paid no attention to them.
62. Instead, he gave orders to take off Jonathan’s garments and to clothe him in purple. And they did so.