1 Maccabees 10:51–58

Treaty of Ptolemy and Alexander

⁵¹Then Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt with the following message:^{* 52}“Since I have returned to my kingdom and have taken my seat on the throne of my ancestors and established my rule—for I crushed Demetrius and gained control of our country; ⁵³I met him in battle, and he and his army were crushed by us, and we have taken our seat on the throne of his kingdom—⁵⁴now therefore let us establish friendship with one another; give me now your daughter as my wife, and I will become your son-in-law and will make gifts to you and to her in keeping with your position.”

⁵⁵Ptolemy the king replied and said, “Happy was the day on which you returned to the land of your ancestors and took your seat on the throne of their kingdom. ⁵⁶And now I will do for you as you wrote, but meet me at Ptolemais, so that we may see one another, and I will become your father-in-law, as you have said.”^*

⁵⁷So Ptolemy set out from Egypt, he and his daughter Cleopatra, and came to Ptolemais in the one hundred sixty-second year. ⁵⁸King Alexander met him, and Ptolemy^b gave him his daughter Cleopatra in marriage and celebrated her wedding at Ptolemais with great pomp, as kings do.^*