1 Maccabees 7:10-12

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ So they marched away and came with a large force into the land of Judah; and he sent messengers to Judas and his brothers with peaceable but treacherous words. ¹¹ But they paid no attention to their words, for they saw that they had come with a large force.

¹² Then a group of scribes appeared in a body before Al′cimus and Bac′chides to ask for just terms.