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.”