1 Maccabees 10:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And he said: Shall we find such another man? now therefore we will make him our friend and our confederate.

¹⁷ So he wrote a letter, and sent it to him according to these words, saying:

¹⁸ King Alexander to his brother Jonathan, greeting.