1 Maccabees 12:14-16

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ But we would not be troublesome to you, nor the rest of our allies and friends in these wars.

¹⁵ For we have had help from heaven, and we have been delivered, and our enemies are humbled.

¹⁶ We have chosen therefore Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans to renew with them the former amity and alliance.