2 Maccabees 11:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² And put all the rest to flight: many of them being wounded, escaped naked: yea and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and escaped.

¹³ And as he was a man of understanding considering with himself, the loss he had suffered, and perceiving that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because they relied upon the help of the Almighty God, he sent to them:

¹⁴ And promised that he would agree to all things that are just, and that he would persuade the king to be their friend.