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.
8. And so King Ptolemy took possession of the cities along the seacoast as far as Seleucia by the sea, plotting evil schemes against Alexander all the while.
9. He sent ambassadors to King Demetrius, saying: “Come, let us make a covenant with each other; I will give you my daughter whom Alexander has married, and you shall reign over your father’s kingdom.
10. I regret that I gave him my daughter, for he has sought to kill me.”
11. He was criticizing Alexander, however, because he coveted his kingdom.
12. After taking his daughter away, Ptolemy gave her to Demetrius and broke with Alexander; the enmity between them was now evident.
13. Then Ptolemy entered Antioch and assumed the crown of Asia; thus he set upon his head two crowns, that of Egypt and that of Asia.
14. Now King Alexander was in Cilicia at that time, because the people of that region had revolted.
15. When Alexander heard the news, he came against Ptolemy in battle. Ptolemy marched out and met him with a strong force and routed him.
16. When Alexander fled to Arabia to seek protection, King Ptolemy was triumphant.
17. Zabdiel the Arabian cut off Alexander’s head and sent it to Ptolemy.
18. But three days later King Ptolemy himself died, and his troops in the strongholds were killed by the inhabitants of the strongholds.