2 Maccabees 14:25-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁵ And he desired him to marry a wife, and to have children. So he married: he lived quietly, and they lived in common.

²⁶ But Alcimus seeing the love they had one to another, and the covenants, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor assented to the foreign interest, for that he meant to make Judas, who was a traitor to the kingdom, his successor.

²⁷ Then the king being in a rage and provoked with this man's wicked accusations, wrote to Nicanor, signifying, that he was greatly displeased with the covenant of friendship: and that he commanded him nevertheless to send Machabeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.