1 Maccabees 13:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁶ Send now one hundred talents of silver and two of his sons as hostages, so that when released he will not revolt against us, and we will release him.’

¹⁷ Simon knew that they were speaking deceitfully to him, but he sent to get the money and the sons, so that he would not arouse great hostility among the people, who might say, ¹⁸ ‘It was because Simon^[a] did not send him the money and the sons, that Jonathan^[b] perished.’