1 Maccabees 14:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

²⁰ The princes and the cities of the Spartans to Simon the high priest, and to the ancients, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews their brethren, greeting.