Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER AND THE SCARLET CLOAK. 559
in Him both by day and by night, and they all
cried out with one voice, saying, "Blessed be Thy
"Name, O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
"Who hath delivered us from the destruction and
"from the captivity which Thou hast brought upon
"Thy people Israel." And after these things God
revealed to them and shewed them everything
which He had brought upon the people of Israel,
the chastisement, and the sickness, and the af-
fliction which came upon them in the train of
hunger and thirst.
And it came to pass that after seventy years Danussends
king Darius brought them out from the land ofta^ktojei^-
Babylon, and he sent them away to return to their ^^''""•
own country, and he said unto them, "Be ye sub-
"ject unto me." Then came Alexander to the land
of Babylon, and there was war between Darius
[and him], and Darius perished in the war, and
Alexander became king over the whole land ofAiexander
Babylon; and he went to Jerusalem and became Trius'^Md
kin? o in all the borders thereof And he g-athered '"
o Jerusalem.
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together the priests of Israel and their chief people,
and he answered and said unto them, "Give me
"the scarlet cloak;" and they said unto him, "We
"cannot give it unto thee." And Alexander said
to them, "Why can ye not give it unto me.-*" And The scarlet
they said unto him, "Thou art of the men of''"
"Greece, and it befitteth thee not to put on the
"raiment of the kings of Judah." And Alexander
said unto them, "Am not I king in all the earth?
"and shall it be unseemly for me to put it on.''"