1 Maccabees 12:42-44

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴² When Trypho saw that he had come with a large army, he was afraid to raise his hand against him. ⁴³ So he received him with honour and commended him to all his Friends, and he gave him gifts and commanded his Friends and his troops to obey him as they would himself. ⁴⁴ Then he said to Jonathan, ‘Why have you put all these people to so much trouble when we are not at war?