2 Maccabees 11:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ Thou shalt do well therefore to send to them, and grant them peace, that our pleasure being known, they may be of good comfort, and look to their own affairs.

²⁷ But the king's letter to the Jews was in this manner: King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews, greeting.

²⁸ If you are well, you are as we desire, we ourselves also are well.