1 Maccabees 12:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And he sent letters to the Spartans, and to other places according to the same form.

³ And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said: Jonathan the high priest, and the nation of the Jews have sent us to renew the amity, and alliance as it was before.

⁴ And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace.