1 Maccabees 10:20
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Now therefore we make you this day high priest of your nation, and that you be called Friend of the King (and he sent him a purple robe, and a crown of gold), and that you be of one mind with us in our affairs, and keep friendship with us.[fn]
Footnotes
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Friend of the King was a Seleucid court title; the purple robe and gold crown marked Jonathan's official appointment.