The Antiquities of the Jews, 12.138

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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138“King Antiochus To Ptolemy, Sendeth Greeting.

“Since the Jews, upon our first entrance on their country, demonstrated their friendship towards us, and when we came to their city [Jerusalem], received us in a splendid manner, and came to meet us with their senate, and gave abundance of provisions to our soldiers, and to the elephants, and joined with us in ejecting the garrison of the Egyptians that were in the citadel,

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