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And so King Ptolemy took possession of the cities along the seacoast as far as Seleucia by the sea,[a] plotting evil schemes against Alexander all the while. 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.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:8 Seleucia by the sea: at the mouth of the Orontes, the port city of Antioch.
  2. 11:10 I regret…to kill me: according to Josephus, Ammonius, a friend of Alexander, had tried to assassinate Ptolemy, and the latter claimed that Alexander was the instigator, thus calumniating him to gain his kingdom (v. 11).