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1 Maccabees 11:31-33
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 11:31-33
New Catholic Bible
31 For your own information we are sending you a copy of the letter that we wrote to our kinsman Lasthenes[a] concerning you, as follows: 32 ‘King Demetrius sends greetings to his father Lasthenes. 33 Since the Jewish people are our friends and fulfill their obligations to us, we have decided to reward them.
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- 1 Maccabees 11:31 Lasthenes: the architect of the victory of Demetrius who had commanded the troops gathered on the Aegean islands with which the kingdom had been reconquered.
