.

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In the mean season came Numenius and his company from Rome,
having letters to the kings and countries; wherein were written
these things:

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Lucius, consul of the Romans unto king Ptolemee, greeting:

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The Jews' ambassadors, our friends and confederates, came
unto us to renew the old friendship and league, being sent from
Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:

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And they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.

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We thought it good therefore to write unto the kings and
countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against
them, their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies
against them.

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It seemed also good to us to receive the shield of them.

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If therefore there be any pestilent fellows, that have fled
from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high
priest, that he may punish them according to their own law.

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The same things wrote he likewise unto Demetrius the king,
and Attalus, to Ariarathes, and Arsaces,

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And to all the countries and to Sampsames, and the
Lacedemonians, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria,
and Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and
Rhodus, and Aradus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna,
and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.

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And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.

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So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day,
assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he
shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.

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At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid
him; silver also, and gold, and much armour.

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Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the
covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange
unto him.

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Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends,
to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with
the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.

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The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great hurt in
the land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.

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Now therefore deliver the cities which ye have taken, and the
tributes of the places, whereof ye have gotten dominion without
the borders of Judea:

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Or else give me for them five hundr