1 Maccabees 14:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ But when they heard that Simon his brother was made high priest in his place, and was possessed of all the country, and the cities therein:

¹⁸ They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and alliance which they had made with Judas, and with Jonathan his brethren.

¹⁹ And they were read before the assembly in Jerusalem. And this is the copy of the letters that the Spartans sent.