1 Maccabees 10:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Demetrius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him; ⁴ for he said to himself, “Let us act first to make peace with him^[a] before he makes peace with Alexander against us, ⁵ for he will remember all the wrongs that we did to him and to his brothers and his nation.”