Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Now I am ready to make an alliance. Give me your daughter in marriage, and I will give both of you such gifts as you deserve." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee. 1 Maccabees 10:52Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country, 1 Maccabees 10:53 And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom: 1 Maccabees 10:55 And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom. 1 Maccabees 10:56 And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as thou hast said. Context 1 Maccabees 10…53And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom: 54Now, therefore, let us make friendship one with another: and give me now thy daughter to wife, and I will be thy son in law, and I will give both thee and her gifts worthy of thee. 55And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 10:52 Forasmuch as I am returned into my kingdom and am set in the throne of my ancestors, and have gotten the dominion, and have overthrown Demetrius and possessed our country, 1 Maccabees 10:53 And have joined battle with him, and both he and his army have been destroyed by us, and we are placed in the throne of his kingdom: 1 Maccabees 10:55 And king Ptolomee answered, saying: Happy is the day wherein thou didst return to the land of thy fathers, and sattest in the throne of their kingdom. 1 Maccabees 10:56 And now I will do to thee as thou hast written but meet me at Ptolemais, that we may see one another, and I may give her to thee as thou hast said. |