1 Maccabees 10:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make one with Alexander against us.

⁵ For he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and against his brother, and against his nation.

⁶ And he gave him authority to gather together an army, and to make arms, and that he should be his confederate: and the hostages that were in the castle, he commanded to be delivered to him.