1 Maccabees 14:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁴ And after this Simon sent Numenius to Rome, with a great shield of gold the weight of a thousand pounds, to confirm the league with them. And when the people of Rome had heard

²⁵ These words, they said: What thanks shall we give to Simon, and his sons?

²⁶ For he hath restored his brethren, and hath driven away in fight the enemies of Israel from them: and they decreed him liberty, and registered it in tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in mount Sion.