2 Maccabees 11:22-24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² But the king's letter contained these words: King Antiochus to Lysias his brother, greeting.

²³ Our father being translated amongst the gods, we are desirous that they that are in our realm should live quietly, and apply themselves diligently to their own concerns,

²⁴ And we have heard that the Jews would not consent to my father to turn to the rites of the Greeks, but that they would keep to their own manner of living, and therefore that they request us to allow them to live after their own laws.