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1 Maccabees 11:29-31
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 11:29-31
New Catholic Bible
29 The king consented and wrote the following letter to Jonathan about all these matters:
30 “King Demetrius sends greetings to his brother Jonathan and to the Jewish nation. 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:
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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.
