1. In the one hundred and sixtieth year, Alexander Epiphanes, son of Antiochus, came up and took Ptolemais. They accepted him as king and he began to reign there.
2. When King Demetrius heard of it, he mustered a very large army and marched out to engage him in battle.
3. Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan written in peaceful terms, to exalt him;
4. for he said: “Let us be the first to make peace with him, before he makes peace with Alexander against us,
5. since he will remember all the wrongs we have done to him, his brothers, and his nation.”