19. We have heard of you, that you are a mighty man of valour, and meet to be our Friend.
20. And now we have appointed you this day to be high priest of your nation, and to be called the king’s Friend (and he sent to him a purple robe and a crown of gold), and to take our part, and to keep friendship with us.
21. And Jonathan put on the holy garments in the seventh month of the hundred and sixties year, at the feast of tabernacles, and he gathered together forces, and provided arms in abundance.
22. And Demetrius heard these things, and he was grieved, and said,
23. What is this that we have done, that Alexander has been beforehand with us in establishing friendship with the Jews, to strengthen himself?
24. I also will write to them words of encouragement and of honor and of gifts, that they may be with me to aid me.