1 Maccabees 10:2-4

Wycliffe Bible

² And king Demetrius heard, and gathered an host full copious, and went out against him into battle.

³ And Demetrius sent [an] epistle to Jonathan with peaceable words, for to magnify him.

⁴ For he said, Before take we for to make peace with him, before that he make (an accord) with Alexander against us;