1 Maccabees 15:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ Envoys from the Jews, our friends and allies, have come to us to renew our original treaty of friendship and alliance. They were sent by Simon the high priest and the Jewish people, ¹⁸ and they brought with them a gold shield weighing one thousand minas. ¹⁹ Therefore, we have decided to write to various kings and countries with the edict that they are not to seek to harm them or to wage war against them or their cities or their country, and that they are not to enter into an alliance with those who war against them.